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"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 of time, including a strong series of arguments against presentism, the thesis that only the present is real. Arguments offered in favour of four-dimensionalism include novel arguments based on time travel, the debate between spacetime substantivalists and relationalists, and vagueness. Also included is a comprehensive discussion of the paradoxes of coinciding material objects, and a novel resolution of those paradoxes based on temporal counterpart theory. In conclusion Sider replies to prominent objections to four-dimensionalism, including discussion of the problem of the rotating homogenous disk.
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- Autor/es Sider, Theodore
- ISBN13 9780199263523
- ISBN10 0199263523
- Páginas 255
- Año de Edición 2003
Four-dimensionalism: an ontology of persistence and time
- Autor/a Theodore Sider
- Editorial OXFORD U.P.
- ISBN 9780199263523
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