Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Mind Association Occasional Series) - Softcover

Sider, Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199263523 ISBN 13: 9780199263523

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2003

Synopsis

Lucid, absorbing, and original, this book defends the theory that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. Along the way, it addresses many topics on the metaphysics of time and identity. These include the status of past and future objects, the nature of motion and change, the existence of composite objects, and examples involving two things in the same place at the same time.

About this title

About the Author:

Theodore Sider is in the Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Review:

"Theodore Sider's excellent book provides an extremely lucid, persuasive, and detailed defense of the four-dimensionalist position, one that poses formidable challenges to the three-dimensionalist...Sider adds powerful new considerations of his own creation to the existing stockpile, which no doubt will engender a flurry of serious philosophical scrutiny in the literature to come...As a result, Sider arrives at an extraordinarily thoughtful, informative, and balanced assessment of the debate over persistence from which misleading rhetoric is largely absent...For many years to come, this book is sure to be the locus classicus with respect to which all those engaged with the literature on persistence must position themselves." --The Philosophical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199263523
• ISBN 13: 9780199263523
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288