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The Problem of Inertia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Ferrel Christensen
Ferrel Christensen*
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Department of Philosophy University of Alberta
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Abstract

Many modern commentators on inertial phenomena hold (or just assume) that there is no “problem of inertia”, on the grounds that either (a) no explanation is needed for such phenomena or (b) the explanation is already at hand. My purpose here is to comment on both views, defending the thesis that the problem is real and still unsolved.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , June 1981, pp. 232 - 247
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Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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