NDPR have a very positive review of Tim Maudlin’s recently published Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time.

This is volume one of a two-volume survey of the philosophy of physics. The second volume of the series addresses foundational questions concerning the contemporary theory of matter, Quantum Mechanics. Here, in volume one, Maudlin is concerned with questions that lie at the foundation of space-time theories: What kinds of entities are presupposed by space-time theories, and what kind of structure do those entities (or the space, time or space-time that they make up) have? He surveys these questions in the context of the physics of Aristotle, through Galileo and Newton, to Special and General Relativity. He guides us through these theories in a way that carefully uncovers what he takes to be the answers to these questions in each context. The book covers a lot of familiar philosophical ground in philosophy of space and time. But it does so in a way that introduces the key background to contemporary debates. Philosophical discussion is threaded carefully and precisely though the presentation of the physics, and the ontological and conceptual commitments of the physics are almost always explicitly unpacked and clarified. Along the way Maudlin presents and develops some of the essential concepts that lie at the foundations of space-time theories required for understanding contemporary debates in the philosophy of space and time: topology, affine structure, metric structure, inertial coordinate systems, and gauge freedom, to name just a few.