Katherine Hawley

How Things Persist

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Produktbeschreibung

Katherine Hawley explores and compares three theories of persistence -- endurance, perdurance, and stage theories - investigating the ways in which they attempt to account for the world around us. Having provided valuable clarification of its two main rivals, she concludes by advocating stage theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780199275434
• ISBN-10: 0199275432
• Artikelnr.: 22129312

Autorenporträt

Katherine Hawley is Lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Sameness and Difference
2: Parts and Stages
3: Sticking Stages Together
4: Vagueness
5: Sheer Coincidence?
6: Modality
Epilogue
Bibliography, Index