000 02868nam a22004695i 4500
001 978-1-4020-5256-9
003 DE-He213
005 20251006084519.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 100301s2006 ne | s |||| 0|eng d
020 _a9781402052569
020 _a99781402052569
024 7 _a10.1007/1-4020-5256-1
_2doi
082 0 4 _a110
_223
100 1 _aMiller, Kristie Lyn.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aIssues In Theoretical Diversity
_h[electronic resource] :
_bPersistence, Composition, and Time /
_cby Kristie Lyn Miller.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2006.
300 _aXIII, 252 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 1 _aPhilosophical Studies Series ;
_v106
505 0 _aWhat 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.
520 _aOur 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 looking at accounts of composition and persistence through a new methodological lens. It asks the question: what does it take for two theories to be genuinely different, and how can we know whether what seems like metaphysical disagreement is really just semantic disagreement? By offering a framework within which to explore issues of theoretical diversity, this book provides a novel way of thinking about the inter-relationship between composition and persistence. Ultimately, it argues for a new way of thinking about these issues, a way that does not preserve the standard theoretical dichotomies between four-dimensionalist theories on the one hand, and three-dimensionalist theories on the other.
650 0 _aPHILOSOPHY (GENERAL).
650 0 _aMETAPHYSICS.
650 0 _aONTOLOGY.
650 0 _aSCIENCE
_xPHILOSOPHY.
650 1 4 _aPHILOSOPHY.
650 2 4 _aMETAPHYSICS.
650 2 4 _aONTOLOGY.
650 2 4 _aPHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781402052552
830 0 _aPhilosophical Studies Series ;
_v106
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5256-1
_zVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY
912 _aZDB-2-SHU
942 _2ddc
_cER
999 _c61197
_d61197