Real Fourdimensionalism
Subtitle: An Essay in the Ontology of Persistence and Mind
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 20, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9783319659268
Description: This book explores persistence, taking human beings as an example case. It investigates how concrete particulars stay the same during their temporal carriers while changing significantly. Themes of relativity, structural realism, 4-dimensional ontologies and different strains of panpsychism are amongst those addressed in this work.This book makes a substantial contribution to debates concerning the status, extent and viability of both stage theoretic models of persistence as well as non-reductive, naturalistic models of persistence. It will be of interest to graduates and scholars involved in analytic metaphysics, as well as the philosophy of mind, especially those specializing in questions of persistence and the ontology of the mind.
Notes: Source title: Real Fourdimensionalism: An Essay in the Ontology of Persistence and Mind (Philosophical Studies Series)