Università Roma Tre

The course focuses on the relationship between the metaphysics and the history and the philosophy of space and time, with particular attention to the notion of space. In its first part, it will focus on a reading and critical discussion of classic texts in the history of theories of space from Zeno to Aristotle, from Descartes, to Newton and Leibniz, and from Poincaré to Einstein, both as they have been collected by Huggett and with integrations of the literature provided by the teacher. In the second part, it will concentrate on topics that are more oriented toward the metaphysical problems of time, regarded in their interrelation with theories emerging from modern and contemporary physics.

N.Huggett, (ed), Space from Zeno to Einstein, The Mit Press, 2000
B. Dainton, Time and Space, 2 ed, 2010, McGill Queens, 2010, 2 ed.