Yuri Balashov

Persistence and Spacetime

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780199579921
• ISBN-10: 019957992X
• Artikelnr.: 28949629

Autorenporträt

Yuri Balashov is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, US. His current interests are in analytic ontology and philosophy of time. He has published extensively in major philosophy journals, such as Noûs, Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, The Monist, and British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and is a co-editor of Einstein Studies in Russia (Birkhäuser, 2002) and Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Background and Assumptions
2: Persistence, Location and Multilocation in Spacetime
3: Classical and Relativistic Spacetime
4: Persisting Objects in Classical Spacetime
5: Persisting Objects in Minkowski Spacetime
6: Coexistence in Spacetime
7: Strange Coexistence?
8: Shapes and Other Arrangements in Minkowski Spacetime
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