Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds

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...

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Main Author: Benovsky, Jiri (Author, Verfasser)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2006
Series:Epistemische Studien 8
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • List of chapters
  • Foreword
  • 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 5, Coincidence and vagueness
  • Chapter 6, The Ship of Theseus
  • Chapter 7, The worm view and the stage view
  • Chapter 8, Four-dimensionalism and common sense
  • Chapter 9, The modal objection
  • Chapter 1, Introduction
  • Chapter 2, Modal realism
  • Chapter 3, Straightforward trans-world identity
  • Chapter 4, Modal counterpart theory
  • Chapter 5, Partial trans-world identity
  • Chapter 6, Modal perdurants
  • Chapter 7, Genuine actualism
  • modal fictionalism
  • Chapter 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.