Persistence : contemporary readings / edited by Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurtz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haslanger, Sally Anne.

Kurtz, Roxanne Marie.

Series:

MIT readers in contemporary philosophy.

MIT readers in contemporary philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Bradford Books/MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Influential accounts of persistence⁰́₄how ordinary objects persist through time⁰́₄examine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09724-5

9786612097249

0-262-27504-X

1-4294-2106-1

OCLC:

77560903