How things persist / Katherine Hawley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawley, Katherine (Katherine Jane), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 221 pages)

Edition:

Paperback edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The world is remarkably stable - amidst the flux, physical objects continue to persist. But how do things persist? The metaphysical questions surrounding this issue are at the forefront of contemporary debate once more.

Contents:

1. Sameness and Difference. 1.1. How Things Persist. 1.2. Change and Perdurance. 1.3. Change and Endurance. 1.4. Properties as Relations to Times. 1.5. Adverbialism: Instantiation as Relative to Times. 1.6. Change, Parthood, and Being 'Wholly Present'. 1.7. Time and Persistence. 1.8. Conclusions, and Personal Persistence

2. Parts and Stages. 2.1. Wholes and Parts, Properties and Predicates. 2.2. Stage Theory. 2.3. Developing Stage Theory. 2.4. How Long are Stages? 2.5. Time and Change. 2.6. Lingering and Historical Predicates. 2.7. Reference and Reidentification. 2.8. Sameness, Identity, and Counting. 2.9. Personal Persistence

3. Sticking Stages Together. 3.1. Non-supervenient Relations.

Notes:

Originally published: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-75525-3

9786610755257

0-19-155460-X

1-4237-7109-5

OCLC:

1027166323