Nonlocal causation in Maxwell theory
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Weinstein, Steven | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-08-16 | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-08-16 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-07-21 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1013 | |
| dc.description | Contains one audio recording (mp3) and one set of presentation notes | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Maxwell's equations were the inspiration for special relativity and the principle of relativistic "causality", whereby spacelike-separated events are understood to be causally independent. In this talk, I will show that one of Maxwell's equations actually implies a form of nonlocal causation - causation between what are nominally causally independent events - and show that this sort of causation, while not susceptible to an interventionist or counterfactual analysis, is crucial for many everyday attributions of causal connectedness | en |
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| dc.format.extent | 9073 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | audio/x-mpeg | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Centre for Time, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney. | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Origins III :: Intervention, Time and Physics | en |
| dc.rights | This material is copyright. Other than for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under the Copyright Act, no part of it may in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, microcopying, photocopying, recording or otherwise) be altered, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without prior written permission from the University of Sydney Library and/or the appropriate author. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.usyd.edu.au/disclaimer.shtml | en |
| dc.subject | Time | en |
| dc.subject | Nonlocal causation | en |
| dc.subject | Maxwell theory | en |
| dc.title | Nonlocal causation in Maxwell theory | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_AU |
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