Philosophy of Space and Time

Philosophy of Space and Time
What is space? What is time?

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We will examine the following aspects:

• Are space, time and their properties a priori or empirical?
• What is the relationship between space, time and worldly objects?
• Are they part of the external world, or part of the human mind and intuition? Externality vs Internality
• What is the difference between mathematical space and physical space?
• Brief review of Non-Euclidean Geometry covered in previous sessions.
• Did special/general relativity expand our understanding of space and time, and how are space and time in modern physics related to Kantian space and time?
• Is physical space Euclidean?
• What is the difference between space and time?
• Space and real numbers: The concept of length and area, and the problem of incommensurable. The real number line and the continuum.
• What is spacetime according to quantum mechanics?
• Mathematical space and its relation to set theory and mathematical logic.
• (advanced topics: Riemann Manifold, Hilbert space etc)

Best,
Wesley