Space, time, and irreversibility: The philosophical problems of contemporary astrophysics

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  • Gustavo Esteban Romero National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and National University of La Plata (Argentina).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.7.8478

Palabras clave:

ontology, space-time, epistemology, black holes, gravitational waves

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Scientific philosophy is that which is informed by science. It uses exact tools such as logic and mathematics and provides a framework for scientific activity to solve more general questions about nature, the language we use to describe it, and the knowledge we obtain thanks to it. Many of the scientific philosophy theories can be proven and evaluated using scientific evidence. In this paper, I focus on showing how several classical philosophy topics, such as the nature of space and time or the dimensionality of the future, can be addressed philosophically using the tools from current astrophysics research and, in particular, from the study of black holes and gravitational waves.

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Biografía del autor/a

Gustavo Esteban Romero, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and National University of La Plata (Argentina).

PhD in Physics and professor of Relativistic Astrophysics of the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He is a senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy, has published almost 300 papers and ten books on astrophysics, gravitation, and scientific philosophy, and has delivered lectures and courses on these topics in more than twenty countries.

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20-06-2017

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Romero, G. E. (2017). Space, time, and irreversibility: The philosophical problems of contemporary astrophysics. Metode Science Studies Journal, (7), 201–209. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.7.8478
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