Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012)
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The Fundamentals of Geometry
Timothy Stanley: There's a ton of stuff in the book that we didn't have a chance to talk about very clearly, right? So it's a lot of examples, lots of really great descriptions. The main thing I've been working on for about the last five years is a huge, tremendously huge project That connects up with this book in a very straightforward way. He says he'll be building an entirely new mathematical tool to cover the same area that standard topology does, but on an entirely different basis.
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