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Peter Lynds
Information and links relating to Peter Lynds' work on the subject of time, physics, Zeno's paradoxes and consciousness.
http://www.peterlynds.net.nz/
Game Theory of Human History
Robert Wright summarizes his book "Nonzero: The Logic Of Human Destiny", which uses game theory to develop a philosophy of history.
http://www.nonzero.org/intro.htm
The Nature of Time and Space
Discusses the nature of time and space from the epistemological and the ontological aspects. (PDF file).
http://www.sciencepub.net/0101/01-ma.pdf
On the Time Reversal Invariance of Classical Electromagnetic Theory
suggests a thinking about the time reversal invariance of classical electromagnetic theory -- one that makes use of the invariant (four-dimensional)
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00...
Multisimultaneity
On experiments to investigate the tension between quantum mechanics and relativity.
http://www.quantumphil.org/history.htm
Time's Arrow - book review
The reviewer asks, has the case for temporal symmetry been overstated?
http://www.usyd.edu.au/philosophy/price/pr...
What's Theory Reduction?
Can Thermodynamics be reduced to Mechanics?
http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/reduc...
Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Life is hard. But it's harder if you don't know how the material world works! Here are some of the powerful keys to understanding from chemistry
http://www.2ndlaw.com/
Being and Becoming in Modern Physics
Discusses implications of general relativity for the philosophy of time; by Steven Savitt.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetim...
Direction of time and Collapse of the Universe
Also Timelessness and Interpretation ofQuantum Mechanics
http://www.c-parr.freeserve.co.uk/hcp/coll...
The Direction of Time
Different causes and aspects of the time's arrow (Web-book in pdf).
http://www.time-direction.de/
Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle
From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Frank Arntzenius.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-...
Space-Time-Chance
Musing on Bell's theorem implications by prof. Nelson
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/pape...
Timeless Reality
Professor Stenger combines penetrationg philosophical analysis with solid understanding of physics fundamentals and of literature
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenge...
Time
Long article about questions of time, as discussed through the history of philosophy.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/time.htm
Reductionism, physicalism, dualism
Entry in: Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDi...
Review of Robert Wright, Non-Zero
Critical and informed reviews of Non-Zero book, above.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/...
A Walk Through Time
Evolution of timekeeping through the centuries.
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.h...
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