–substantivalist debate per se that is providing a rich vein of philosophical material. Rather interest is now (or should be) in a family of interpretative questions concerning space and time in physics that are related to, though not identical to, those of the traditional debate. The work of Julian Barbour has played a

I discuss Julian Barbour's Machian theories of dynamics, and his proposal that a Machian perspective enables one to solve the problem of time in quantum ge-ometrodynamics (by saying that there is no time!). I concentrate on his recent

In a companion paper (Pooley & Brown 2001) it is argued that Julian Barbour’s Machian approach to dynamics provides a genuinely relational interpretation of Newtonian dynamics and that it is more explanatory than the conventional, substantival interpretation. In this paper the extension

-laden. It is then suggested that the best-matching framework developed by Julian Barbour might provide a robust enough meaning of background in-dependence. The structure of Bohmian dynamics is evaluated against this framework, reaching some intermediate results that speak in favor of the fact that Bohmian mechanics can

and Professor Tavakol for active collaborations. I also thank Dr. Julian Barbour and Professor Niall Ó Murchadha for teaching me many things and for collaboration, and the Barbour family for much hospitality. I also thank Brendan Foster and Dr. Bryan Kelleher for many discussions and for collaboration, and Dr

the nature of space and time that are interesting to explore. Different perspectives have been developed across History, and it could well be that the next scientific revolution is set in motion by an innovative conception of space and time. One of this alternative perspectives was proposed by Julian Barbour

. The source of a high original state that can continually “run down ” has been difficult to identify. There is a strange situation in fundamental physics regarding time. Well respected physicists [Julian Barbour for example] point out that all quantum mechanical equations are cyclical with time. Common sense

doctrine of eternal recurrence in terms of moments and lives as “eternally occurring. ” The next section is a treatment of Julian Barbour’s neo-Machian model of instants of time as configurations in the n-dimensional phase-space he calls “Platonia. ” While rejecting his claim to have done away with time, I

, in, e.g., McKeon 1941.) Or is our usual uncritical belief in the reality of change the product of some sort of perceptual illusion or intellectual error, as believed by Parmenides and a small host of recent authors such as Gödel (1949) and Julian Barbour (2002)? I won’t be able to solve the whole

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