UID:
almafu_9959233093902883
Format:
1 online resource (281 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-11-032324-9
Series Statement:
Epistemische Studien : Schriften zur Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie ; Bd. 8
Content:
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 addressed 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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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pt. I. Persistence through time -- pt. II. Persistence across possible worlds.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-032282-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-72492-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110323245
