Persistence through time, and across possible worlds / / Jiri Benovsky
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| Autore: |
Benovsky Jiri
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| Titolo: |
Persistence through time, and across possible worlds / / Jiri Benovsky
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| Pubblicazione: | Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 115 |
| Soggetto topico: | Space and time |
| Science - Philosophy | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. Persistence through time -- pt. II. Persistence across possible worlds. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How do ordinary objects persist through time and across possible worlds? How do they manage to have their temporal and modal properties? These are the questions addressed in this book which is? ""guided tour of theories of persistence"". The book is divided in two parts. In the first, the two traditional accounts of persistence through time (endurantism and perdurantism) are combined with presentism and eternalism to yield four different views, and their variants. The resulting views are then examined in turn, in order to see which combinations are appealing and which are not. It is argued that |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Persistence through time, and across possible worlds |
| ISBN: | 3-11-032324-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827846603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Epistemische Studien (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; ; Bd. 8.