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  1. What price spacetime substantivalism? The hole story.John Earman & John Norton - 1987 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (4):515-525.
    Spacetime substantivalism leads to a radical form of indeterminism within a very broad class of spacetime theories which include our best spacetime theory, general relativity. Extending an argument from Einstein, we show that spacetime substantivalists are committed to very many more distinct physical states than these theories' equations can determine, even with the most extensive boundary conditions.
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  • Energy Conservation in GTR.Carl Hoefer - 2000 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 31 (2):187-199.
    The topics of gravitational field energy and energy-momentum conservation in General Relativity theory have been unjustly neglected by philosophers. If the gravitational field in space free of ordinary matter, as represented by the metric g ab itself, can be said to carry genuine energy and momentum, this is a powerful argument for adopting the substantivalist view of spacetime.This paper explores the standard textbook account of gravitational field energy and argues that (a) so-called stress-energy of the gravitational field is well-defined neither (...)
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  • Astride the Divided Line: Platonism, Empiricism, and Einstein's Epistemological Opportunism.Don Howard - 1998 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 63:143-164.
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  • Null Cones and Einstein's Equations in Minkowski Spacetime.J. Brian Pitts & W. C. Schieve - 2004 - Foundations of Physics 34 (2):211-238.
    If Einstein's equations are to describe a field theory of gravity in Minkowski spacetime, then causality requires that the effective curved metric must respect the flat background metric's null cone. The kinematical problem is solved using a generalized eigenvector formalism based on the Segré classification of symmetric rank 2 tensors with respect to a Lorentzian metric. Securing the correct relationship between the two null cones dynamically plausibly is achieved using the naive gauge freedom. New variables tied to the generalized eigenvector (...)
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  • Of pots and holes: Einstein's bumpy road to general relativity.Michel Janssen - unknown
    Readers of this volume will notice that it contains only a few papers on general relativity. This is because most papers documenting the genesis and early development of general relativity were not published in Annalen der Physik . After Einstein took up his new prestigious position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in the spring of 1914, the Sitzungsberichte of the Berlin academy almost by default became the main outlet for his scientific production. Two of the more important papers on (...)
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  • Foundations and current problems of general relativity (notes by graham dixon, petros florides and gerald lemmer).Andrzej Trautman - 1965 - In A. Trautman (ed.), Lectures on general relativity. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. pp. 1--1.
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