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The essays in this volume are based on the papers given at a conference on the philosophical aspects of the space-time theory held under the auspices of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. Table of Contents Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity. Howard Stein. Indistinguishable Space-times and the Fundamental Group. Clark Glymour. Observationally Indistinguishable Space-Times: Comments on Glymour’s Paper. David Malament Prediction in General Relativity. Robert Geroch. Time in General Relativity. C J. S. Clarke. Till the End of Time. John Earman. The Causal Theory of Minkowski Space-Time. John Winnie. Facts, Conventions, and Assumptions in the Theory of Space-Time. Lawrence Sklar. Geometry and Observables. Peter G. Bergmann. The Curvature of Physical Space. Wesley C. Salmon. Absolute and Relational Theories of Space-Time. Adolf Grunbaum. On Space-Time Ontology: Extracts from a Letter to Adolf Grunbaum. Howard Stein. Simultaneity in Newtonian Mechanics and Special Relativity. Michael Friedman. On Conventionality of Simultaneity - Another Reply. Peter A. Bowman