Special relativity, conventionalism vs. empiricism

[hellfire]

I am searching for a book or online source that discusses the conventionalist vs. empiricist point of view on Einstein synchronization procedure. I would like to find there some explanation of Malament's argument and Reichenbach's view about synchronization. Also about tests of SR and the Mansouri-Sexl test theory of SR. The reference should contain detailed mathematical proofs.

 

[robphy]

Unfortunately, I'm not up on the issues involved...
but...

Have you looked through
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/subjects/relativity-theory.html ?

Here is Malament's page:
www.lps.uci.edu/home/fac-staff/faculty/malament/
and his recent survey article:
www.lps.uci.edu/home/fac-staff/faculty/malament/papers/GRSurvey.pdf (also: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506065 )

possibly useful:
"Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond"
By Max Jammer
http://books.google.com/books?id=vuTXBPvswOwC&dq=synchronization+reichenbach

 

[hellfire]

Malament's article will be of great help, thanks. The book by Jammer might be exactly what I am searching for but unfortunately there is no review in amazon.

 

[robphy]

http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1751-8121/40/40/B01

BOOK REVIEW
Concepts of Simultaneity From Antiquity to Einstein and beyond

F A Muller 2007 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 12255-12256 doi:10.1088/1751-8121/40/40/B01