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Relativity and Simultaneity Redux

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

V. Alan White
V. Alan White
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University of Wisconsin Center—Manitowoc County
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Philosophy , Volume 68 , Issue 265 , July 1993 , pp. 401 - 404
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1993

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References

1 Einstein, Albert, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (London: Methuen (University Paperback), 15th edition, 1960), 25–26.Google Scholar

2 Cohen, Michael, ‘Einstein on Simultaneity’, Philosophy 67, No. 262 (10 1992), 543–548.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 White, V. Alan, ‘Cohen on Einstein's Simultaneity Gedankenexperiment’, Philosophy 66, No. 256 (04 1991), 245–246.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Op. cit., 245.

5 Cohen, Michael, ‘Simultaneity and Einstein's Gedankenexperiment’, Philosophy 64, No. 249 (07 1989), 396.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 Op. cit., 246.

7 Op. cit., 547.

8 Op. cit., 544.

9 Op. cit., 545.

10 Ibid.

11 Op. cit., 25, my emphasis.

12 Op. cit., 26.

13 Op. cit., 545.

14 A fairly detailed exposition of the logical structure of Einstein's thought experiment may be found in Resnick, Robert and Halliday, David, Basic Concepts in Relativity, (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992), 42–47.Google Scholar Jo Chern, David Gratz, and Roger Rigterink contributed in different ways toward clarifying my thoughts.