Space, time, and causality / edited by Richard Swinburne.

Contributor Swinburne, Richard.

Imprint:Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston, U.S.A. : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston Inc., c1983.

Descriptionxvi, 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:"The papers in this volume are revised versions of papers read to a conference at the University of Keele in September 1981, sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy"--Pref.

Note:ABSOLUTE VERSUS RELATIVE SPACE AND TIME: Three steps towards absolutism / J.L. Mackie -- Reply to Mackie / Jon Dorling -- Absoluteness and conspiracy / Elie Zahar -- TIME AND CAUSAL CONNECCTIBILITY: Prospects for a causal theory of space-time / Lawrence Sklar -- Verificationism and theories of space-time / Richard Swinburne -- TEMPORAL AND CAUSAL ASYMMETRY: Temporal and causal asymmetry / Richard A. Healey -- Temporal and causal asymmetry / W.H. Newton-Smith -- CAUSALITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS: How the measurement problem is an artifact of the mathematics / Nancy Cartwright -- Measurement, unitarity, and laws / Jeremy Butterfield -- CAUSALITY, RELATIVITY, AND THE EINSTEIN-PODOLSKY-ROSEN PARADOX: Nonlocality and peaceful coexistence / Michael Redhead -- Quantum logic and ensembles / Peter Gibbins.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.

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