This book combines physics, philosophy, and history in a radical new approach to introducing the philosophy
of physics. It leads the reader through several central problems in the philosophy of physics by tracing their
connections to a single issue: whether a cause must be spatiotemporally local to its effect, or whether action
at a distance can occur.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
1. What Is Spatiotemporal Locality?
2. Fields to the Rescue?
3. Dispositions and Causes.
4. Locality and Scientific Explanation.
5. Fields, Energy, and Momentum.
6. Is There Nothing But Fields?
7. Relativity and the Unification of Electricity and Magnetism.
8. Relativity, Energy, Mass, and the Reality of Fields.
9. Quantum Metaphysics.
Final Exam.
References.
Index.
