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A Walk Through Time - http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html
Evolution of timekeeping through the centuries.

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/
Discusses implications of general relativity for the philosophy of time; by Steven Savitt.

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/time.htm - http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/time.htm
Long article about questions of time, as discussed through the history of philosophy.

Multisimultaneity - http://www.quantumphil.org/history.htm
On experiments to investigate the tension between quantum mechanics and relativity.

On the Time Reversal Invariance of Classical Electromagnetic Theory - http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001406/
suggests a thinking about the time reversal invariance of classical electromagnetic theory -- one that makes use of the invariant (four-dimensional)

Reductionism, physicalism, dualism - http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/nonreductivephysicalism.html
Entry in: Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

Review of Robert Wright, Non-Zero - http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/Reviews/nonzero.html
Critical and informed reviews of Non-Zero book, above.

The Direction of Time - http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~as3/time-direction/
Different causes and aspects of the time's arrow (Web-book in pdf).

Time: Illusion and Reality: An Unconventional But Constructive Look at the Nature of Time - http://smithjcn.googlepages.com/time
Philosophical essey on nature of time.

Timeless Reality - http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/void.html
Summary, excerpts, and selected reviews of a book by Victor J. Stenger presenting a time-symmetric view of physics and cosmology.

What's Theory Reduction? - http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/reduction1.html
Can Thermodynamics be reduced to Mechanics?

Why is Time Frame-dependent in Relativity? - http://electroneubio.secyt.gov.ar/Why_is_Time_Frame-dependent_in_Relativity.pdf
Article by Mariela Szirko describes special relativity as stronly supporting a "block universe" view, but points out that knowledge from other disciplines argues in favor of a "cause and effect" view of the universe.

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