Theodore Sider (, Professor of Philosophy, New York University)

Four-Dimensionalism

An Ontology of Persistence and Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing the topics concerned with the metaphysics of time and identity over time, this book aims to defend the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780199263523
• ISBN-10: 0199263523
• Artikelnr.: 21462742

Autorenporträt

(Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, New York, USA)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Four-Dimensional Picture
2: Against Presentism
3: Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated
4: In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism Part 1
5: In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism Part 2: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence
6: Arguments against Four-Dimensionalism
Bibliography, Index