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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Bradford Books/MIT Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 p.)
• Disciplina: 111/.8
• Soggetto topico: Identity (Philosophical concept); Change
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HaslangerSally Anne KurtzRoxanne Marie
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Persistence
• ISBN: 1-282-09724-5; 9786612097249; 0-262-27504-X; 1-4294-2106-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452159203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: MIT readers in contemporary philosophy.