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Selected Papers From the Biennial Conferences on Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory (1988-1996). The conferences were sponsored by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and held at the Imperial College, London.

Contents:

•  11 Harold Aspden, FOUR QUESTIONS CONCERNING RELATIVITY
•  21 Y.V. Balashov, STEADY STATE COSMOLOGIES AS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROGRAM
•  27 John F. Barrett, HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND ITS RELATION TO THE COSMOLOGY OF MILNE
•  35 Marius Borneas, ON THE CONCEPTS OF SPACE AND TIME
•  39 Claude Comte, THE FUNDAMENTAL R?LE OF THE REFERENCE FRAME REVISITED
•  47 William Lane Craig, RELATIVITY AND THE \"ELIMINATION\" OF ABSOLUTE TIME
•  67 S.K. Ghosal & P. Chakraborty, THE CONCEPT OF LORENTZ INVARIANT CLOCKS
•  73 Roger C. Jennison, PROPER TIME, PROPER LENGTH AND SOME COMMENTS ON THE CONCEPTS OF TIME AND DISTANCE
•  84 Ludwik Kostro, WHAT IS THIS: A CLOCK IN RELATIVITY THEORY?
•  91 Peter Kroes, TIME DILATION WITHIN SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• 107 Francis Mathe, PROBLEMS OF TIME SCALE IN COSMOLOGY
• 111 Storrs McCall, TOWARDS A LORENTZ-INVARIANT THEORY OF COLLAPSE
• 123 Andr? Mercier, THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SPACE-TIME AS TIME-SPACE
• 133 W. Trevor Morris, ON RELATIVITY AND CAUSALITY
• 138 K.K. Nandi, SOME ASPECTS OF MINIMALLY RELATIVISTIC NEWTONIAN GRAVITY
• 140 Peter ?hrstr?m, TENSE LOGIC AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• 149 A. Paparodopoulos, LIGHT PROPAGATION IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
• 152 Simon J. Prokhovnik, THE NATURE AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE ROBERTSON-WALKER METRIC
• 159 David Roscoe, INERTIA, GRAVITATION, AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• 170 Mendel Sachs, ON THE MEANING OF SPACE AND TIME
• 177 Ruggero M. Santilli, DIRECT UNIVERSALITY OF ISOSPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR GENERALIZED SPACETIMES
• 195 Chalmers W. Sherwin, TRANSIENT EFFECTS IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• 201 Torgny Sj?din, ON THE ONE-WAY VELOCITY OF LIGHT & ITS POSSIBLE MEASURABILITY
• 206 Lawrence Sklar, THE CONVENTIONALITY OF SIMULTANEITY! AGAIN?
• 217 A.V. Soldatov, PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE WORLD PICTURE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE
• 220 R. Tavakol, GEOMETRY OF SPACE-TIME & FINSLER SPACES
• 225 S.C. Tiwari, REALITY, INTUITION, AND MIND: REFLECTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF H. POINCAR?
• 232 Barrie J. Tonkinson, CLOCKS DON?T GO SLOW, RODS DON?T CONTRACT
• 245 H?kan T?rnebohm, INFRA-THEORIES TO THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• 255 Mogens Wegener, IDEAS OF COSMOLOGY: A PHILOSOPHER\'S SYNTHESIS
• 275 INDEX