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| Introduction to Persistence
What’s the Problem?
Roxanne Marie Kurtz
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| I. | Metaphysics of Temporal Parts | 27 |
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| A. | Perdurance | 29 |
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| 1. | Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis (1950)
Willard Van Orman Quine | 31 |
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| 2. | Spatial and Temporal Analogies and the Concept of Identity (1955)
Richard Taylor | 35 |
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| 3. | Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds (1986)
David Lewis | 51 |
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| 4. | Four-Dimensionalism (1997)
Theodore Sider | 55 |
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| B. | Exdurance (or Stage Theory) | 89 |
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| 5. | All the World's a Stage (1996) | 91 |
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| 6. | Selections from How Things Persist (2002)
Katherine Hawley | 119 |
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| II. | Problems for Temporal Parts Approaches to Persistence | 135 |
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| A. | Uniting Many into One | 137 |
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| 7. | Parthood and Identity across Time (1983)
Judith Jarvis Thomson | 139 |
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| 8. | Persistence, Change, and Explanation (1989)
Sally Haslanger | 159 |
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| B. | Motion and the Spinning Sphere | 187 |
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| 9. | Zimmerman and the Spinning Sphere (1999)
David Lewis | 189 |
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| 10. | One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis (1999)
Dean W. Zimmerman | 195 |
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| 11. | Persistence and Non-supervenient Relations (1999)
Ellis W. Hawley | 201 |
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| III. | Metaphysics of Enduring Things | 217 |
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| A. | Endurance: Eternalist Approaches | 219 |
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| 12. | Four-dimensional Objects (1990)
Peter van Inwagen | 221 |
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| 13. | Selections from Real Time (1981)
Hugh Mellor | 233 |
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| 14. | Is There a Problem about Persistence? (1987)
Mark Johnston | 241 |
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| 15. | Is There a Problem about Persistence? (1987)
Graeme Forbes | 267 |
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| B. | Endurance: Presentist Approaches | 285 |
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| 16. | The Puzzle of Change (1996)
Mark Hinchliff | 287 |
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| 17. | A Defense of Presentism (2004)
Ned Markosian | 307 |
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| 18. | On Passage and Persistence (1994)
William R. Carter and H. Scott Hestevold | 343 |
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| 19. | Presentism and Ontological Commitment (1999)
Theodore Sider | 367 |
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| 20. | Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism (1998)
Dean W. Zimmerman | 393 |
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| IV. | Problems for Endurance | 425 |
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| A. | Temporary Intrinsics | 427 |
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| 21. | Tensing the Copula (2002)
David Lewis | 429 |
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| 22. | The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics (2000)
Theodore Sider | 443 |
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| B. | Special Relativity | 449 |
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| 23. | Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn (2000)
Yuri Balashov | 451 |
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| Index
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