Issues In Theoretical Diversity Persistence, Composition, and Time /

• Main Author: Miller, Kristie Lyn (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series ; 106
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.

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 l...

Table of Contents:

• What is Metaphysical Equivalence?
• The Puzzles of Persistence
• Defining Our Terms
• Issues of Composition
• The Metaphysical Equivalence of Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism
• The Metaphysical Equivalence of Non-Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism
• Travelling in Time
• Empirical Equivalence and Special Relativity.