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Samuel Alexander's Concept of Space-Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Harry Ruja
Harry Ruja*
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University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
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Abstract

Since the seventeenth century, when Descartes divided the universe into two realms, the distinctive character of one of which being its spatiality or extendedness, philosophers have been increasingly concerned with the analysis of the category of Space. Scientists, too, have been interested in the concepts of Space and Time, especially since the promulgation of the theory of relativity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1935 , pp. 188 - 209
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1935

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References

1 Mind, XXX, (1921), p. 150.

2 S. Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity, “The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow for 1916–1918,” Two Volumes, Macmillan & Co., London, 1920; Vol. I, p. 35, Vol. II, p. 182. Unless otherwise designated, it is this book to which all future references in this paper refer.

3 I, 37 (volume and page number).

4 II, 147.

5 I, 153.

6 Alexander, “Some Explanations,” Mind, XXX, (1921), 423.

7 I, 93.

8 Ibid.

9 I, 180.

10 I, 165.

11 I, 35.

12 I, 39, note 1.

13 I, 152.

14 Mind, XXX, 410.

15 I, 44.

16 I, 45, 46, 47.

17 I, 145.

18 I, 48.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid.

21 I, 65.

22 I, 84.

23 I, 183.

24 I, 341.

25 I, 65.

26 Ibid.

27 I, 200.

28 II, 71.

29 I, 223.

30 I, 37.

31 Ibid.

32 Ibid.

33 I, 43.

34 I, 209.

35 I. 274, 275.

36 II, 312.

37 II, 5.

38 Ibid.

39 Mind, op. cit., p. 423.

40 II, 5.

41 II, 312.

42 I, 274, 275.

43 I, 276.

44 I, 275, my italics.

45 Ibid.

46 I, 276, my italics.

47 I, 220.

48 I, 246.

49 I, 227.

50 I, 228

51 I, 239.

52 I, 222.

53 II, 49.

54 I, 249.

55 I, 166.

56 I, 202.

57 II, 212.

58 II, 185, 186.

59 II, 214, 215, 216.

60 II, 71.

61 II, 59.

62 II, 47.

63 The issue has perhaps best been crystallized in recent philosophy in the discussion of the question whether the quality “good” can legitimately be identified with a biological pattern. See R. B. Perry, General Theory of Value for an affirmation and G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica for a denial.

64 I, 249.

65 I, 222.

66 I, 133.

67 I, 113.

68 See E. B. Holt, The New Realism, pp. 303 ff; E. Spaulding The New Rationalism.

69 II, 216.

70 The Revolt Against Dualism, pp. 70, 71.