GERALD JAMES WHITROW’S PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
GERALD JAMES WHITROW’S PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE

Author(s): Giovanni Macchia
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: Whitrow; Cosmology; Expanding universe; Philosophy of space;
Summary/Abstract: One of the few authors to have explicitly connected the cosmological issue of the universe’s expansion with the philosophy of space is Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000). A man of extraordinary erudition, he was a British physical mathematician, cosmologist and historian of science. His main contributions were in cosmology and astrophysics, but he also wrote noteworthy essays in history and philosophy of science, above all on the concept of time. His masterpiece is The Natural Philosophy of Time, a monumental book published in 1961 and 1980. My analysis will be focused on it, specifically upon his position on the philosophical implications regarding space as they emerge from modern cosmology.

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