Dainton Barry. Time and Space

2nd edition. — Acumen Publishing Limited, 2010. — 464 p. — ISBN: 1844651916, 1844651908.The first edition (2001) quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ideas of modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way and is careful to keep the conceptual issues throughout comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. The book makes the philosophy of space and time accessible for anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, the book has the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as an essential textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.Preliminaries
McTaggart on time’s unreality
The Block universe
Asymmetries within time
Tensed time
Dynamic time
Time and consciousness
Time travel
Conceptions of void
Space: the classical debate
Absolute motion
Motion in spacetime
Curved space
Tangible space
Spatial anti- realism
Zeno and the continuum I
Zeno and the continuum II
Special relativity
Relativity and reality
General relativity
Spacetime metaphysics
Strings