One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized by the following assertion: at the fundamental level, for me, things and places are the same. It is as if there is just one entity (or sub-stance, in the metaphysical sense of that which stays under what appears), which I can call…
This article is the continuation of the previous one – Space and Place: A Scientific History – Part One -, an inquiry into the concepts of space and place analysed through the scientific perspective of Julian Barbour’s book The Discovery of Dynamics. Now, the scope is to cover the temporal gap from the moment where Barbour left his work (the…
With the present work, I begin the first of two articles that approach the questions of space and place from a scientific perspective, through the presentation of historically grounded texts by three physicists. The first is The Discovery of Dynamics: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and the Structure of Dynamical Theories (2001), by the…
I consider Edward Casey’s book The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History my raison d’être in the critical debate on the meaning of the concepts of place and space. With this article I want to pay tribute to this fundamental work, which, for me, was complementary to a couple of other texts, more focused on the scientific perspective concerning the…