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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 115
• Soggetto topico: Time; Identity (Philosophical concept); Self (Philosophy); Death
• Soggetto non controllato: PHILOSOPHY/General
• Altri autori: CampbellJoseph Keim <1958-> O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Time and identity
• ISBN: 0-262-26548-6; 1-282-73694-9; 9786612736940; 0-262-26579-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822368103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Topics in contemporary philosophy.