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