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A Longish Introduction: The Problem of Change | |
Melissus's Paradox | |
What is Change? | |
Laws | |
Spacetime Today | |
Zeno's Paradoxes | |
The Dichotomy Paradox | |
""Supertasks"" | |
Zeno's Arrow Paradox | |
The Paradox | |
What Philosophy Can Teach Physics | |
The Shape of Space I-Topology | |
An End to Space? | |
Neither Bounded Nor Infinite | |
What Physics Can Teach Philosophy | |
Beyond the Third Dimension? | |
Multi-Dimensional Life | |
More Than Three Dimensions? | |
Why Three Dimensions? | |
The Force of Gravity and the Dimensions of Space | |
Does Intelligent Life Take Three Dimensions? | |
Is the Universe Made for Humans? | |
The Megaverse | |
Philosophy in Physics | |
The Shape of Space II-Curved Space? | |
Mathematical Certainty | |
Life in Non-Euclidean Geometry | |
What Kind of Knowledge is Geometry? | |
Looking For Geometry | |
Measuring the Geometry of Space? | |
The 'Geometry' of Poincar'e's Space | |
How to Disprove a Definition | |
Experiencing Space: 8.5 Where is Geometry? | |
What is Space? | |
Space=Matter | |
Relational Space | |
Absolute Space | |
Relational Space Redux | |
What Physics and Philosophy Can Teach Each Other | |
Time | |
Time vs. Space | |
Nowism | |
A Moving Now? | |
McTaggart's Argument | |
Passing Time in a Block Universe | |
Time and Tralfamadore | |
The Mind's Worldline | |
Experience of Space vs. Time | |
Another Arrow | |
Physics and the Philosophy of Perception | |
Time Travel | |
What is Time Travel? | |
Is Time Travel Possible? | |
The Problem with Time Travel | |
Possible and Impossible Time Travel | |
The Philosophy and Physics of Time Travel | |
Why Can't I Stop my Younger Self from Time Traveling? | |
Physics Might Stop Me | |
. . . and If Not, Logic Will | |
My Precise Physical State Stops Me | |
Living in a Physical Universe | |
Spacetime and the Theory of Relativity | |
Photons and Bullets | |
Convention | |
Relativity-When is Now? | |
Relativistic Spacetime | |
Relativity of Length | |
Relativity of Time | |
Time in Relativity | |
The Twins | |
General Relativity | |
Time vs. Space Yet Again | |
Einstein's Revolution in Philosophy | |
Hands and Mirrors | |
Is Handedness Intrinsic or Extrinsic? | |
The 'Fitting' Account | |
Kant's Argument against the Fitting Account | |
Looking Left and Right | |
Mirrors | |
Orientability | |
Identity | |
Particle Statistics | |
Schr""odinger's Counting Games | |
Quarticles | |
New Counting Games | |
Hookon Identity | |
Indistinguishable Quarticles? | |
Quanta as Quarticles | |
Where Next? | |
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