Concepts of Simultaneity

Max Jammer, who was personally acquainted with Albert Einstein while at Princeton, is former president and professor emeritus of Bar-Ilan University and author of a number of important books, mainly in the philosophy of physics. Among his numerous awards are the Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the much coveted Israel Prize.

Preface
Introduction
1. Terminological Preliminaries
2. The Concept of Simultaneity in Antiquity
3. Medieval Conceptions of Simultaneity
4. The Concept of Simultaneity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
5. The Concept of Simultaneity in Classical Physics
6. The Transition to the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity
7. Simultaneity in the Special Theory of Relativity
8. The Reception of the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity
9. The Conventionality Thesis
10. The Promulgation of the Conventionality Thesis
11. Symmetry and Transitivity of Simultaneity
12. Arguments against the Conventionality Thesis
13. Clock Transport Synchrony
14. Recent Debates on the Conventionality of Simultaneity
15. Simultaneity in General Relativity and in Quantum Mechanics
Epilogue
Index