This page contains a reader for my part in subproject B of the Swiss National Science Foundation project "Properties and Realtions". It is intended for those who wish to get up-to-date with the relevant background material. It does not claim comprehensiveness. If you have suggestions for additional material, please do not hesitate to contact me.

• Belot, G and Earman, J (2001), "Pre-Socratic Quantum Gravity", in C Callender and N Huggett (eds), Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 213-255.
• Earman, J (2002a), "Gauge Matters", Philosophy of Science 69: S209-220. [PDF] (subscription required)
• Earman, J (2002b), "Thoroughly modern McTaggart: Or, what McTaggart would have said if he had learned general relativity theory", Philosophers' Imprint 2, No. 3. [PDF]
• Earman, J (2003), "Tracking down gauge: an ode to the constrained Hamiltonian formalism", in K Brading and E Castellani (eds), Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 140-162.
• Healey, R (2004), "Change without change, and how to observe it in general relativity", Synthese 141(3): 381-415. [PDF] (subscription required)
• Isham, C (1992), "Canonical quantum gravity and the problem of time", in L A Ibort and M A Rodriguez (eds), Integrable Systems, Quantum Groups, and Quantum Field theories, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 157-288. [arXiv.org]
• Maudlin, T (2002), "Thoroughly muddled McTaggart: Or, how to abuse gauge freedom to create metaphysical monstrosities", Philosophers' Imprint 2, No. 4 (with a response by John Earman). [PDF]
• Wüthrich, C (2006), Approaching the Planck Scale From a Generally Relativistic Point of View: a Philosophical Appraisal of Loop Quantum Gravity, PhD dissertation, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. Section 4.3, pp. 73-79, is the most pertinent text. [PDF]

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