The Ontology of Spacetime II

The Concordia University (Montreal) from the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime (John Earman, President) 9 to 11 June 2006.
Most chapters are devoted to the ontology of spacetime.
The book begins with the view of the first and second places. The focus then slightly shifts in the aspects of relativity theory. After this, Time, Becoming and Change take center stage in the next five papers. The book of the Kaluza-Klein theory, a relatively uncharted territory, and the concept of physics, respectively.

. Space and time in present-day physics and philosophy
. Relatively low level of technicality, please
. Introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time
. Broad spectrum of approaches, coherently represented

1. A Trope-Bundle Ontology for Field-Theory, A. Wayne
2. Is Structural Realism Relationism in Disguise? The Supererogatory Nature of the Substantivalism / Relationism Debate, M. Dorato
3. Identity, Spacetime and Cosmology, J. Faye
4. Persistence and Multilocation in Spacetime, Yu. Balashov
5. Is Spacetime a Gravitational Field ?, D. Lehmkuhl
6. Structural Aspects of the Singular Features of Space-Time, V. Lam
7. Who's Afraid of Background Independence ?, D. Rickles
8. Understanding Indeterminism, C. Brighouse
9. Conventionality of Simultaneity and Reality, V. Petkov
10. Pruning Some Branches from Branching Spacetimes, J. Earman
11. Time Lapse and the Degenerate of Time: Goedel, Proper Time and Becoming in Relativity Theory, RTW Arthur
12. On Temporal Becoming, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, T. Bigaj
13. Relativity, the Passage of Time and the Cosmic Clock, P. Forrest
14. Time and Relation in Relativity and Quantum Gravity, A. de Saint-Ours
15. Mechanisms of Unification in Kaluza-Klein Theory, I. Muntean
16. Condensed Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime, J. Bain