Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds

Jiri Benovsky

Published by De Gruyter 2006

Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds

Jiri Benovsky

Volume 8 in the series Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110323245

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
List of chapters Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Part I: Persistence through time
Chapter 1, Introduction & definitions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2, Problems with presentism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 3, The presentist perdurantist view Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 4, The problem of change in temporary intrinsic properties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 5, Coincidence and vagueness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 6, The Ship of Theseus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 7, The worm view and the stage view Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 8, Four-dimensionalism and common sense Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 9, The modal objection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part II: Persistence across possible worlds
Chapter 1, Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 2, Modal realism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 3, Straightforward trans-world identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 4, Modal counterpart theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 5, Partial trans-world identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 6, Modal perdurants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 7, Genuine actualism – modal fictionalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 8, Abstractionism-Ersatzism-Actualism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Chapter 9, Abstractionism and trans-world identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 10, Abstractionism and counterpart theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Chapter 11, Abstractionism and modal perdurants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Chapter 12, Bundle-bundle-bundle theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
List of figures : Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 281
Keywords: Erkenntnistheorie; Metaphysik; Philosophie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110323245

Hardcover

Published: March 15, 2006
ISBN: 9783110322828