Persistence and Spacetime
How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in time, or are they four-dimensional spacetime "worms"? Yuri Balashov shows how Einstein's theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism, and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metaphysical issues.
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How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in time, or are they four-dimensional spacetime "worms"? Yuri Balashov shows how Einstein's theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism, and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metaphysical issues.
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- Publication Date:2010
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010
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- Description:233 p.
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- ISBN:019957992X, 9780199579921
- oclc:ocn760048546
- LC Classification:BD632
- Dewey Decimal:115
Table of Contents
1. Background and Assumptions; 2. Persistence, Location and Multilocation in Spacetime; 3. Classical and Relativistic Spacetime; 4. Persisting Objects in Classical Spacetime; 5. Persisting Objects in Minkowski Spacetime; 6. Coexistence in Spacetime; 7. Strange Coexistence?; 8. Shapes and Other Arrangements in Minkowski Spacetime; References
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