Special relativity, conventionalism vs. empiricism

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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.
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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