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| The Measure of All Things | |
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| Incident at Greenwich | |
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| Metric, Convention, and Fact | |
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| Time and the Laws of Nature | |
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| Change | |
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| Time as Change | |
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| Time without Change? | |
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| Everything Has a Reason | |
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| A Box with No Sides? | |
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| Where Two Worlds Meet | |
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| Aristotle against the Void | |
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| Jars, Pumps, and Barometers | |
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| Lessons of the Vacuum | |
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| The Redundancy of Space | |
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| The Search for Absolute Motion | |
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| Curves and Dimensions | |
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| Euclid Displaced | |
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| Space Makes Its Presence Felt | |
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| The Lone Hand | |
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| More than Three Dimensions? | |
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| The Beginning and End of Time | |
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| Echoes of Creation, Portents of Armageddon | |
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| The Limits of Reason | |
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| Can the Past be Infinite? | |
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| The Great Circle | |
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| The Edge of Space | |
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| Archytas at the Edge | |
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| Is There Space beyond the Universe? | |
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| The Illusion of Infinity | |
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| Infinity and Paradox | |
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| Zeno: How the Tortoise Beat Achilles | |
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| Two Responses to Zeno: Infinitesimals and Finitism | |
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| Thomson's Lamp | |
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| A Puzzle about Transition | |
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| Democritus' Cone | |
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| Atoms of Space and Time | |
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| Does Time Pass? | |
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| The Mystery of Passage | |
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| McTaggart's Proof of the Unreality of Time | |
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| First Response: Presentism | |
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| Second Response: the B-Theory | |
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| Why Is There Only One Present? | |
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| The Cinematic Universe | |
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| Muybridge's Horse and Zeno's Arrow | |
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| No Motion at an Instant? | |
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| No Motion in the Present? | |
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| Zeno and the Presentist | |
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| Interfering with History | |
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| The Lost Days | |
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| The Alterability of the Past | |
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| Dilemmas of the Time-Traveller | |
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| Causation in Reverse | |
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| Other Times and Spaces | |
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| Probability and the Multiverse | |
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| Branching Space | |
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| Objections and Consequences | |
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| The Arrows of Time | |
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| The Hidden Signpost | |
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| Three Arrows, and Why Things Fall Apart | |
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| The Mind's Past | |
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| The Seeds of Time | |
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| Parallel Causes | |
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| Is Time Order Merely Local? | |
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| Are Causes Simultaneous with Their Effects? | |
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| A Sense of Direction in a Directionless World | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Mr Dunne's Dream and Other Problems | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |