Unity and time in metaphysics / Herausgegeben von = [edited by] Ludger Honnefelder, Edmund Runggaldier, Benedikt Schick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Honnefelder, Ludger.

Runggaldier, Edmund.

Schick, Benedikt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whole and parts (Philosophy)--Congresses.

Whole and parts (Philosophy).

Time--Philosophy--Congresses.

Time.

Change--Congresses.

Change.

Time--Philosophy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2009]

Contents:

Identity Across Time: A Defense of Three-Dimensionalism / Lynne Rudder Baker 1

Unity and Constitution of Social Entities / Ludger Jansen 15

The Non-Physicalness of Material Objects / Uwe Meixner 46

Serious Endurantism and the Strong Unity of Human Persons / E. Jonathan Lowe 67

Why Parthood Might Be a Four-Place Relation, and How It Behaves If It Is / Cody Gilmore 83

An Alternative to Endurantism and Perdurantism: Doing without Occupants / Frank Hofmann 134

The Beginnings of Greek Ontology and the Question of Temporal Being / Jan Szaif 151

New Ideas on Subject and Identity in Medieval Logic / Simo Knuuttila 183

Time and Existence / Ludger Honnefelder 198

Against Conventionalism: Powers and Functions / Edmund Runggaldier 210

Powers and Persistence / Stephen Mumford 223

Natural Individuals and Intrinsic Properties / Godehard Brüntrup 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 26-28, 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

ISBN:

9783110212341

311021234X

OCLC:

319320822