Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds
Title:
Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds
Author:
Benovsky, Jiri.
ISBN:
9783110323245
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Publication Information:
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages).
Series:
Epistemische Studien
Deutsche Hochschulschriften. Epistemische Studien.
Contents:
List of chapters; Foreword; Part IPersistence through time; Chapter 1, Introduction & definitions; Chapter 2, Problems with presentism; Chapter 3, The presentist perdurantist view; Chapter 4, The problem of change in temporary intrinsic properties; Chapter 6, The Ship of Theseus; Chapter 8, Four-dimensionalism and common sense; Chapter 9, The modal objection; Part IIPersistence across possible worlds; Chapter 1, Introduction; Chapter 2, Modal realism; Chapter 3, Straightforward trans-world identity; Chapter 4, Modal counterpart theory; Chapter 6, Modal perdurants.
Chapter 7, Genuine actualism -- modal fictionalismChapter 8, Abstractionism-Ersatzism-Actualism; Chapter 9, Abstractionism and trans-world identity; Chapter 10, Abstractionism and counterpart theory; Chapter 11, Abstractionism and modal perdurants; Chapter 12, Bundle-bundle-bundle theory; List of figures :; Bibliography.
Abstract:
How do ordinary objects persist through time and across possible worlds? How do they manage to have their temporal and modal properties? These are the questions adressed in this book which is? ""guided tour of theories of persistence"". The book is divided in two parts. In the first, the two traditional accounts of persistence through time (endurantism and perdurantism) are combined with presentism and eternalism to yield four different views, and their variants. The resulting views are then examined in turn, in order to see which combinations are appealing and which are not. It is argued that.
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