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Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,935
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Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds (Hardcover): Jiri Benovsky

Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds (Hardcover)

Jiri Benovsky

Series: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies

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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.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies
Release date: March 2006
First published: 2006
Authors: Jiri Benovsky
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-032282-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
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LSN: 3-11-032282-X
Barcode: 9783110322828

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