Issues in Theoretical Diversity - Persistence, Composition, and Time (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

Our world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks. But in virtue of what do a bunch of little objects get to compose some bigger object, and how does that bigger object persist through time? This book aims to answer these questions, but it does so by looking at accounts of composition and persistence through a new methodological lens. It asks the question: what does it take for two theories to be genuinely different, and how can we know whether what seems like metaphysical disagreement is really just semantic disagreement? By offering a framework within which to explore issues of theoretical diversity, this book provides a novel way of thinking about the inter-relationship between composition and persistence. Ultimately, it argues for a new way of thinking about these issues, a way that does not preserve the standard theoretical dichotomies between four-dimensionalist and three-dimensionalist theories

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Philosophical Studies Series, 106
Release date:	2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Kristie Lyn Miller
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-5255-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-5255-3
Barcode:	9781402052552

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