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Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds

Author : Jiri Benovsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110323249
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds written by Jiri Benovsky and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Persistence

Author : Sally Anne Haslanger
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Persistence written by Sally Anne Haslanger and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2006 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential accounts of persistence--how ordinary objects persist through time--examine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.

The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics

Author : Michael J. Loux
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199284221
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics by : Michael J. Loux

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics written by Michael J. Loux and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the world's specialists provide in this handbook essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness.

Four-dimensionalism

Author : Theodore Sider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199263523
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Four-dimensionalism written by Theodore Sider and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to the challenges four-dimensionalism faces. Theodore Sider pays particular attention to the philosophy of time, including a strong series of arguments against presentism, the thesis that only the present is real. Arguments offered in favour offour-dimensionalism include novel arguments based on time travel, the debate beween spacetime substantivalists and relationalists, and vagueness. Also included is a comprehensive discussion of the paradoxes of coinciding material objects, and a novel resolution of those paradoxes based on temporal counterpart theory. In conclusion Sider replies to prominent objections to four-dimensionalism, including discussion of the problem of the rotating homogenous disk. Four Dimensionalism is an originaland highly readable study of the metaphysics of time and identity.

Time Biases

Author : Meghan Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198812841
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Time Biases written by Meghan Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should you care less about your distant future? What about events in your life that have already happened? How should the passage of time affect your planning and assessment of your life? Most of us think it is irrational to ignore the future but completely harmless to dismiss the past. But this book argues that rationality requires temporal neutrality: if you are rational you don't engage in any kind of temporal discounting. The book draws on puzzles about real-life planning to build the case for temporal neutrality. How much should you save for retirement? Does it make sense to cryogenically freeze your brain after death? How much should you ask to be compensated for a past injury? Will climate change make your life meaningless? Meghan Sullivan considers what it is for you to be a person extended over time, how time affects our ability to care about ourselves, and all of the ways that our emotions might bias our rational planning. Drawing substantially from work in social psychology, economics and the history of philosophy, the book offers a systematic new theory of rational planning.

Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology

Author : Alice Bell
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496213076
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology written by Alice Bell and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world that we belong to and possible worlds created by the imagination, possible worlds theory has made significant contributions to narratology. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts. Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area—Lubomír Doležel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan—Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of contemporary narrative theory.

Non-locality and Possible World

Author : Tomasz F. Bigaj
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110323303
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Non-locality and Possible World written by Tomasz F. Bigaj and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us to precisely formulate the locality condition that purports to exclude the existence of causal interactions between spatially separated parts of a system. They also make it possible to speak consistently about alternative measuring settings, and to explicate what is meant by quantum property attributions. The book develops the possible-world semantics of quantum counterfactuals using David Lewis’s famous approach as a starting point but modifying it significantly in order to achieve compatibility with the demands of the special theory of relativity as well as quantum mechanics. There have been several attempts to use counterfactual semantics to strengthen Bell’s theorem and its cognates such as the GHZ and Hardy theorems. These are critically evaluated in the book. Finally, a counterfactual reconstruction of the EPR argument and Bell’s theorem is proposed that sheds a new light on their philosophical consequences regarding the relations between realism and local causation.

Persistence and Spacetime

Author : Yuri Balashov
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019957992X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Persistence and Spacetime written by Yuri Balashov and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in time, or are they four-dimensional spacetime "worms"? Yuri Balashov shows how Einstein's theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism, and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metaphysical issues.

Identity and Essence

Author : Baruch A. Brody
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853346
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Essence written by Baruch A. Brody and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baruch Brody contends that the fundamental assumption on which the tradition is based is erroneous and that once this assumption is shown to be in error, all philosophical problems in this area have to be rethought. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

What Makes Time Special?

Author : Craig Callender
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192517856
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Time Special? written by Craig Callender and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom and the self. Yet as central as it is to our lives, physics seems to have no room for this flowing present. What Makes Time Special? demonstrates this claim in detail and then turns to two novel positive tasks. First, by looking at the world "sideways" - in the spatial directions -- it shows that physics is not "spatializing time" as is commonly alleged. Even relativity theory makes significant distinctions between the spacelike and timelike directions, often with surprising consequences. Second, if the flowing present is an illusion, it is a deep one worthy of explanation. The author develops a picture whereby the temporal flow arises as an interaction effect between an observer and the physics of the world. Using insights from philosophy, cognitive science, biology, psychology and physics, the theory claims that the flowing present model of time is the natural reaction to the perceptual and evolutionary challenges thrown at us. Modeling time as flowing makes sense even if it misrepresents it.

God and the Multiverse

Author : Klaas Kraay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317656598
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book God and the Multiverse written by Klaas Kraay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scientific theories have postulated the existence of many universes beyond our own. The details and implications of these theories are hotly contested. Some philosophers argue that these scientific models count against the existence of God. Others, however, argue that if God exists, a multiverse is precisely what we should expect to find. Moreover, these philosophers claim that the idea of a divinely created multiverse can help believers in God respond to certain arguments for atheism. These proposals are, of course, also extremely controversial. This volume collects together twelve newly published essays – two by physicists, and ten by philosophers – that discuss various aspects of this issue. Some of the essays support the idea of a divinely created multiverse; others oppose it. Scientific, philosophical, and theological issues are considered.

Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation

Author : Maria Cristina Amoretti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110322528
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation written by Maria Cristina Amoretti and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to their heterogeneity, the nine essays in this volume offer a clear testimony of Donald Davidson's authority, and they undoubtedly show how much his work - even if it has raised many doubts and criticisms - has been, and still is, highly influential and significant in contemporary analytical philosophy for a wide range of subjects. Moreover, the various articles not only critically and carefully analyze Davidson's theses and arguments (in particular those concerning language and knowledge), but they also illustrate how such theories and ideas, despite their unavoidable difficulties, are still alive and potentially fruitful. Davidon's work is indeed an important and provocative starting point for discussing the future progress of philosophy.

Mind and Matter

Author : Jiri Benovsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030056333
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Mind and Matter written by Jiri Benovsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More exactly, he defends a view that can be labelled 'dual-aspect-pan-proto-psychism'. Panpsychism claims that mentality is ubiquitous to reality, and in combination with dual-aspect monism it claims that anything, from fundamental particles to rocks, trees, and human animals, has two aspects: a physical aspect and a mental aspect. In short, the view is that the nature of reality is 'phental' (physical-mental). But this does not mean, according to the author, that rocks and photons think or have conscious experiences, in the sense in which human animals have experiences. This is where pan-proto-psychism enters the picture as being a better theoretical option, where the mental aspects of fundamental particles, rocks, and trees are not experiential. Many hard questions arise here. In this book, Benovsky focuses on the combination problem: in short, how do tiny mental aspects of fundamental particles combine to yield macro-phenomenal conscious experiences, such as your complex experience when you enjoy a great gastronomic meal? What makes the question even harder is that the combination problem is not just one problem, but rather a family of various combination issues and worries. Benovsky offers a general strategy to deal with these combination problems and focuses on one in particular – namely, the worry concerning the existence of subjects of experience. Indeed, if standard panpsychism were true, we would need an explanation of how tiny micro-subjects combine into a macro-subject like a human person. And if panprotopsychism is true, it has to explain how a subject of experience can arise from proto-micro-mental aspects of reality. Benovsky shows that understanding the nature of subjectivity in terms of the growingly familiar notion of mineness in combination with an eliminativist view of the self, allows us to have a coherent picture, where this type of combination problem is avoided, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The Emergence of Spacetime in String Theory

Author : Tiziana Vistarini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134842406
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Spacetime in String Theory written by Tiziana Vistarini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of space and time is one of the most fascinating and fundamental philosophical issues which presently engages at the deepest level with physics. During the last thirty years this notion has been object of an intense critical review in the light of new scientific theories which try to combine the principles of both general relativity and quantum theory—called theories of quantum gravity. This book considers the way string theory shapes its own account of spacetime disappearance from the fundamental level.

Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time, vol 4

Author : Michael Tooley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135668221
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time, vol 4 written by Michael Tooley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 in the 5-volume series titled Analytical Metaphysics. The essays in this volume are concerned with three main issues. First, what account can be given of the nature of a particular? Second, is identity over time a basic and irreducible relation, or can it be analysed? If so, what is the correct analysis? Third, what account can be offered of what it is to be actual? The final account of this volume involves the claim that actuality is a special property that is possessed by one, and only one, possible world.

Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy

Author : Albrecht von Müller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319104462
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy written by Albrecht von Müller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current volume of the Parmenides Series “On Thinking” addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of “the present,” from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which they present models and express their opinions on and, in some cases, also their skepticism about the subject and how it may be (or may not be) addressed, as well as which aspects they consider most relevant in this context. While Einstein might have once hoped that “the present” would find its place in the theory of general relativity, in a later discussion with Carnap he expressed his disappointment that he was never able to achieve this goal. This collection of articles provides a unique overview of different modern approaches, representing not only a valuable summary for experts, but also a nearly inexhaustible source of profound and novel ideas for those who are simply interested in this question.

Real Fourdimensionalism

Author : Ludwig Jaskolla
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319659278
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Real Fourdimensionalism written by Ludwig Jaskolla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores persistence, taking human beings as an example case. It investigates how concrete particulars stay the same during their temporal carriers while changing significantly. Themes of relativity, structural realism, 4-dimensional ontologies and different strains of panpsychism are amongst those addressed in this work. Beginning with an exploration of the puzzle of persistence, early chapters look at philosophers’ perspectives and models of persistence. Competitors in the debate are introduced, from classical 3-dimensionalism to two flavors of 4-dimensionalism, namely worm theory and stage theory. The second part of the book explores the various challenges to 4-dimensionalism and develops a positive taxonomy of those questions that the reasonable proponent of 4-dimensionlism needs to answer. In the third part of the book readers may explore an ontology at the interface of analytic metaphysics and philosophy of mind, called Real Fourdimensionalism, or more specifically: Physicalistic Stage-Panexperientialism (PSP). This is a version of panexperiential stage theory and its alleged model of persistence-as-deciding answers the questions of the taxonomy. This book makes a substantial contribution to debates concerning the status, extent and viability of both stage theoretic models of persistence as well as non-reductive, naturalistic models of persistence. It will be of interest to graduates and scholars involved in analytic metaphysics, as well as the philosophy of mind, especially those specializing in questions of persistence and the ontology of the mind.