Benovsky Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032324-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 281 Seiten

Reihe: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic StudiesISSN

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benovsky, Jiri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;List of chapters;5
2;Foreword;6
3;Part IPersistence through time;17
4;Chapter 1, Introduction & definitions;19
5;Chapter 2, Problems with presentism;27
6;Chapter 3, The presentist perdurantist view;34
7;Chapter 4, The problem of change in temporary intrinsic properties;45
8;Chapter 6, The Ship of Theseus;84
9;Chapter 8, Four-dimensionalism and common sense;102
10;Chapter 9, The modal objection;113
11;Part IIPersistence across possible worlds;119
12;Chapter 1, Introduction;120
13;Chapter 2, Modal realism;125
14;Chapter 3, Straightforward trans-world identity;129
15;Chapter 4, Modal counterpart theory;133
16;Chapter 6, Modal perdurants;152
17;Chapter 7, Genuine actualism – modal fictionalism;175
18;Chapter 8, Abstractionism-Ersatzism-Actualism;196
19;Chapter 9, Abstractionism and trans-world identity;206
20;Chapter 10, Abstractionism and counterpart theory;217
21;Chapter 11, Abstractionism and modal perdurants;233
22;Chapter 12, Bundle-bundle-bundle theory;240
23;List of figures :;269
24;Bibliography;271