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These are the articles I have commissioned and edited as the subject editor for physics (space and time).
Last updated: May 2, 2018.



Commissioned Posted
Frank Arntzenius and
Tim Maudlin
"Time Travel" March 16, 1998 February 17, 2000
Jean Paul Van Bendegem "Geometry, Finitism in" May 28, 1998 April 3, 2002
Alan Chalmers "Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century" February 27, 2004  June 30, 2005
Erik Curiel
and (later) Peter Bokulich
"Singularities and Black Holes" November 2, 1998  June 29, 2009
Rob DiSalle "Space and Time, Inertial Frames" March 26, 1999 March 28, 2002
John Earman and
Chris Wuthrich
"Time Machines" February 27, 2004 November 25, 2004
Jan Faye "Backward Causation" May 18, 1998 August 27, 2001
F. Flores "The Equivalence of Mass and Energy" March 18, 1998 September 12, 2001
Allan Franklin "Experiment in Physics" March 16, 1998 October 28, 1998
George Gale "Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s" March 17, 1998 May 17, 2002
Hans Halvorsen and Helge Kragh "Cosmology and Theology" May 14, 2011  
Mark Hogarth "Malament-Hogarth Spacetimes and the New Computability" March 30, 1998  
Don Howard "Albert Einstein, Philosophy of Science" March 16, 1998 February 10, 2004
Nick Huggett and Carl Hoefer "Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Motion" August 21, 2002  August 11, 2006
Al Janis "Conventionality of Simultaneity" March 23, 1998 August 31, 1998
Owen Maroney

"Information and Thermodynamic Entropy"

September 13, 2007 September 15, 2009
John D. Norton "The hole argument" March 16, 1998 February 2, 1999
Jon Perez Laraudogoitia
replaced by
"Supertasks" March 16, 1998 June 29, 1999
John Manchak and Bryan Roberts "Supertasks"
April 5, 2016
Tom Ryckman "Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity" March 27, 1998 November 27, 2001
Robert Rynasiewicz "Newton, views on space, time and motion" July 30, 1998 August 12, 2004
Steve Savitt "Being and Becoming in Modern Physics" March 18, 1998 July 5, 2001
Heinz Juergen Schmidt "Structuralism in physics" March 19, 1998 November 24, 2002
Lawrence Sklar "Statistical Mechanics, Philosophy of" July 30, 1998 April 12, 2001
Roberto Torretti "Geometry, Nineteenth Century" September 10, 1998 July 26, 1999
Jos Uffink Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics July 29, 1998 November 17, 2004