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Persistence and Spacetime (Paperback)
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Persistence and Spacetime (Paperback)
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Material objects persist through time and survive change. How do
they manage to do so? What are the underlying facts of persistence?
Do objects persist by being "wholly present" at all moments of time
at which they exist? Or do they persist by having distinct
"temporal segments" confined to the corresponding times? Are
objects three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in
time? Or are they four-dimensional spacetime "worms"? These are
matters of intense debate, which is now driven by concerns about
two major issues in fundamental ontology: parthood and location. It
is in this context that broadly empirical considerations are
increasingly brought to bear on the debate about persistence.
Persistence and Spacetime pursues this empirically based approach
to the questions. Yuri Balashov begins by setting out major rival
views of persistence - endurance, perdurance, and exdurance - in a
spacetime framework and proceeds to investigate the implications of
Einstein's theory of relativity for the debate about persistence.
His overall conclusion - that relativistic considerations favour
four-dimensionalism over three-dimensionalism - is hardly
surprising. It is, however, anything but trivial. Contrary to a
common misconception, there is no straightforward argument from
relativity to four-dimensionalism. The issues involved are complex,
and the debate is closely entangled with a number of other
philosophical disputes, including those about the nature and
ontology of time, parts and wholes, material constitution,
causation and properties, and vagueness.
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