Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics

<P>Autobiographical Reflections; <EM>J. Stachel.</EM> Introduction; <EM>A. Ashtekar, J. Renn, A. Shimony.<BR></EM><STRONG>I: Historical</STRONG> <STRONG>and Philosophical Roots of Relativity.</STRONG> The Prehistory of Relativity; <EM>J. Eisenstaedt.</EM> Interpretations and Equations of the Michelson Experiment and its Variations; <EM>H. Melcher.</EM> The Trouton Experiment, E = mc<SUB>2</SUB>, and a Slice of Minkowski Space-Time; <EM>M. Janssen.</EM> The N-Stein Family; <EM>J.D. Norton.</EM> Eclipses of the Stars: Mandi, Einstein, and the Early History of Gravitational Lensing; <EM>J. Renn, T. Sauer.</EM> The Varieties of Unity: Sounding Unified Theories 1920-1930; <EM>C. Goldstein,</EM> <EM>J. Bitter.</EM> Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: The Case for Non-Reductive Relationalism; <EM>S. Saunders.</EM> On Relative Orbital Rotation in Relativity Theory; <EM>D.B. Malament.</EM> <BR><STRONG>II:</STRONG> <STRONG>Foundational Issues in Relativity and their Advancement.</STRONG> The Unique Nature of Cosmology; <EM>G.F.R. Ellis.</EM> Time, Structure, and Evolution in Cosmology; <EM>L. Smolin.</EM> Timekeeping in an Expanding Universe; <EM>J.L.</EM> <EM>Anderson.</EM> Gravitational Lensing from a Space-Time Perspective; <EM>J.</EM> <EM>Ehlers, S. Frittelli, E.T. Newman.</EM> Rigidly Rotating Disk Revisted; <EM>C.V. Vishveshwara.</EM> DSS 2+2; <EM>R.A. d'Inverno.</EM> Geometry, Null Hypersurfaces and New Variables; <EM>D.C. Robinson.</EM> On Vacuum Twisting Type-N Again; </EM>J.F. Plebanski, M. Przanowski.</EM> Quasi-Local Energy; <EM>J.N. Goldberg.</EM> Space-Time Defects: Open and Closed Shells Revisited; <EM>R.J. Gleiser, P.S. Letelier.</EM> Dimensionally Challenged Gravities; <EM>S. Deser.</EM> A Note on Holonomic Constraints; <EM>W.M. Tulczyjew.</EM> Towards an Action-at-a-Distance Concept of Spacetime; <EM>D.H. Wesley,</EM> <EM>J.A. Wheeler.</EM> <BR><STRONG>III: Foundational Issues in Quantum Physics and</STRONG> <STRONG>their Advancement. Inevitability, Inseparability and <EM>Gedanken</EM> Measurement; <EM>M. Beller.</EM> The Concept of Quantum State: New Views on Old Phenomena; <EM>M. Paty.</EM> Elementary Processes; <EM>D. Ritz Finkelstein.</EM> On Quantum Non-Locality, Special Relativity, and Counterfactual Reasoning; <EM>A. Shimony, H. Stein.</EM> Coherence, Entanglement and Reductionist Explanation in Quantum Physics; <EM>G. Jaeger, S. Sarkar.<BR></EM><STRONG>IV: Science, History and the Challenges of Progress.</STRONG> Physics and Science Fiction; <EM>A.I. Janis.</EM> Can We Learn From History? Do We Want To? <EM>L. Tisza.</EM> Patterns of Appropriation in the Greek Intellectual Life of the 18th Century: Case Study on the Notion of Time; <EM>K. Gavroglu, M.</EM> <EM>Patiniotis.</EM> Darwin, Marx and Warranted Progress: Materialism and Views of Development in Nineteenth-Century Germany; <EM>W. Lefèvre .</EM> Albert Einstein and the Founding of Brandeis University; <EM>S.S.</EM> <EM>Schweber.</EM> <BR><STRONG>Appendix:</STRONG> John Stachel's Publications. </P>