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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822368103321

Titolo

Time and identity / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010

ISBN

0-262-26548-6

1-282-73694-9

9786612736940

0-262-26579-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Collana

Topics in contemporary philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->

O'RourkeMichael <1963->

SilversteinHarry <1942->

Disciplina

115

Soggetti

Time

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Self (Philosophy)

Death

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Framing the problems of time and identity / Matthew H. Slater -- Time -- Temporal reality / Lynne Rudder Baker -- Time for a change : a polemic against the presentism-eternalism debate / Lawrence B. Lombard -- Context, conditionals, fatalism, time travel, and freedom / John W. Carroll -- The identity of the past / Mark Hinchliff -- Identity -- Identity through change and substitutivity salva veritate / Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton -- Identifying the problem of personal identity / Ned Markosian -- Persistence and responsibility / Neal A. Tognazzini -- Descartes on persistence and temporal parts / Geoffrey Gorham -- The self -- Persons, animals, and human beings / Harold Noonan -- Me, again / Jenann Ismael -- Selves and self-concepts / John Perry -- Ex ante desire and post hoc satisfaction / H.E. Baber -- Death -- Eternalism and death's badness / Ben Bradley -- The time of the evil of death / Harry S. Silverstein -- The retroactivity problem / Barbara Baum Levenbook -- Postlude -- Love conquers all, even time?



/ Andrew Light.

Sommario/riassunto

Contributors discuss the metaphysics of time, identity & the self. Beginning with the nature of time, they debate the metaphysical connections between time & identity, paying particular attention to personal identity.