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Simultaneity: A Composite Rejoinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen
Affiliation:
University of Wales, Swansea
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V. Alan White and Gertrud Walton have published responses to my note on Einstein's simultaneity Gedankenexperiment, in which I present a version of the argument free of the flaws to be found in that given by Einstein. White thinks I go too far, that no reformulation is necessary; Walton, that I don't go far enough, and that i the inconsistencies in Einstein's exposition are ‘irreconcilable’. I r shall try to explain why I think both are mistaken.

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Discussion
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Philosophy , Volume 70 , Issue 274 , October 1995 , pp. 587 - 589
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1995

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References

1 ‘Relativity and Simultaneity Redux’, Philosophy, 68, 1993, 401–4;Google Scholar see alsoWhite's ‘Cohen on Einstein's Simultaneity Gedankenexperiment’, Philosophy, 66, 1991, 245.Google Scholar

2 ‘Cohen on Einstein on Simultaneity’, Philosophy, 70, 1995, 114–8.Google Scholar

3 ‘Simultaneity and Einstein's Gedankenexperiment’, Philosophy, 64, 1989, 391–6; see also myGoogle Scholar‘Einstein on Simultaneity’, Philosophy, 67, 1992, 543–8.Google Scholar