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Time and identity / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Topics in contemporary philosophy.
- Topics in contemporary philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Self (Philosophy).
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612736940
- 9780262265485
- 0262265486
- 9781282736948
- 1282736949
- 9780262265799
- 0262265796
- OCLC:
- 648759760
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612736940
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