Four-dimensionalism : an ontology of persistence and time, Theodore Sider

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Four-dimensionalism : an ontology of persistence and time, Theodore Sider

Title remainder

an ontology of persistence and time

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Theodore Sider

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• Four-dimensionalism : an ontology of persistence and time

Publication

• Oxford, Clarendon Press, New York, Oxford University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-250) and index

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Contents

• 3.
• The truth-maker objection.
• 4.
• Presentism and special relativity
• 3.
• Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated.
• 1.
• Why fuss over formulation?
• 2.
• Four-dimensional stated.
• 1.
• 3.
• What is three-dimensionalism?
• 4.
• Perdurance, endurance, presentism, and eternalism
• 4.
• In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 1.
• 1.
• Russell's argument from parsimony.
• 2.
• The argument from logic.
• The Four-Dimensional Picture
• 3.
• The A-theory of time is incoherent.
• 4.
• Four-dimensionalism and special relativity.
• 5.
• Space and time are analogous.
• 6.
• The problem of temporary intrinsics.
• 7.
• Arguments from exotica.
• 2.
• 8.
• The argument from spacetime
• Against Presentism.
• 1.
• Two issues in the philosophy of time: ontology and tense.
• 2.
• Cross-time spatial relations.

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47081311

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23 cm

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xxiv, 255 pages

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9780199244430

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2001036027

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