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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452159203321

Titolo

Persistence [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary readings / / edited by Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurtz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Bradford Books/MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-09724-5

9786612097249

0-262-27504-X

1-4294-2106-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Collana

MIT readers in contemporary philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

HaslangerSally Anne

KurtzRoxanne Marie

Disciplina

111/.8

Soggetti

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to Persistence: What's the Problem?; 1 Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis; 2 Spatial and Temporal Analogies and the Concept of Identity; 3 Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds; 4 Four-Dimensionalism; 5 All the World's a Stage; 6 Selections from How Things Persist; 7 Parthood and Identity across Time; 8 Persistence, Change, and Explanation; 9 Zimmerman and the Spinning Sphere; 10 One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis; 11 Persistence and Non-supervenient Relations; 12 Four-dimensional Objects; 13 Selections from Real Time; 14 Is There a Problem about Persistence?

15 Is There a Problem about Persistence?16 The Puzzle of Change; 17 A Defense of Presentism; 18 On Passage and Persistence; 19 Presentism and Ontological Commitment; 20 Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism; 21 Tensing the Copula; 22 The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics; 23 Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Influential accounts of persistence⁰́₄how ordinary objects persist through time⁰́₄examine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist



approaches and provide an overview of the topic.