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Four-Dimensionalism

Name: Four-Dimensionalism
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04530037
Price: 168.81 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Theodore Sider
ISBN: 9780199244430

An Ontology of Persistence and Time

Theodore Sider

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04530037

Publishers Oxford University Press, October 2001

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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 beween 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. Four Dimensionalism is an original and highly readable study of the metaphysics of time and identity.