Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds
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Jiri Benovsky
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Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110323245
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Epistemische Studien / Epistemic StudiesISSN
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1
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CHF 124.20
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Sonstiges
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English
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281
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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 the 'worm view' variant of eternalist perdurantism is superior to the other alternatives. In the second part of the book, the same strategy is applied to the combinations of views about persistence across possible worlds (trans-world identity, counterpart theory, modal perdurants) and views about the nature of worlds, mainly modal realism and abstractionism. Not only all the traditional and well-known views, but also some more original ones, are examined and their pros and cons are carefully weighted. Here again, it is argued that perdurance seems to be the best strategy available.
List of chapters
5
Foreword
6
Part IPersistence through time
17
Chapter 1, Introduction
17
19
17
Chapter 2, Problems with presentism
27
Chapter 3, The presentist perdurantist view
34
Chapter 4, The problem of change in temporary intrinsic properties
45
Chapter 6, The Ship of Theseus
84
Chapter 8, Four-dimensionalism and common sense
102
Chapter 9, The modal objection
113
Part IIPersistence across possible worlds
119
Chapter 1, Introduction
120
Chapter 2, Modal realism
125
Chapter 3, Straightforward trans-world identity
129
Chapter 4, Modal counterpart theory
133
Chapter 6, Modal perdurants
152
Chapter 7, Genuine actualism – modal fictionalism
175
Chapter 8, Abstractionism-Ersatzism-Actualism
196
Chapter 9, Abstractionism and trans-world identity
206
Chapter 10, Abstractionism and counterpart theory
217
Chapter 11, Abstractionism and modal perdurants
233
Chapter 12, Bundle-bundle-bundle theory
240
List of figures :
269
Bibliography
271
