Persistence and Spacetime

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Persistence and Spacetime

Author	: Yuri Balashov
File Size	: 49,9 Mb
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 29 April 2010
ISBN	: 9780199579921
Pages	: 250 pages

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Persistence and Spacetime by Yuri Balashov Book PDF Summary

How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, or are they four-dimensional spacetime 'worms'? Balashov shows how the theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metaphysical issues.

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Persistence and Spacetime by Yuri Balashov

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

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Persistence and Spacetime by Yuri Balashov

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Temporal Existence and Persistence in Spacetime by Cord Friebe

Relativity still challenges the philosophy of time: Although several sophisticated theories of temporal existence and persistence have been developed in the last decades, there is still an ongoing debate about how to apply the various concepts to spacetime theories and about whether those distinctions are even relevant at all for

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Four Dimensionalism by Theodore Sider,Frederick J Whiton Chair of Philosophy Theodore Sider

Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to the challenges four-dimensionalism faces.Theodore Sider pays particular attention to the philosophy

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The Ontology of Spacetime by Anonim

This book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime. Its fourteen chapters address two main questions: first, what is the current status of the substantivalism/relationalism debate, and second, what about the prospects of presentism and becoming within present-day physics and its philosophy? The

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The Ontology of Spacetime II by Anonim

The sixteen papers collected in this volume are expanded and revised versions of talks delivered at the Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, organized by the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime (John Earman, President) at Concordia University (Montreal) from 9 to 11 June 2006. Most chapters are devoted

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The Emergence of Spacetime in String Theory by Tiziana Vistarini

The nature of space and time is one of the most fascinating and fundamental philosophical issues which presently engages at the deepest level with physics. During the last thirty years this notion has been object of an intense critical review in the light of new scientific theories which try to

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