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Time and identity

edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein

(Bradford book)(Topics in contemporary philosophy)

MIT Press, c2010

  • : hardcover
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: Rraming the problems of time and identity / Matthew H. Slater
  • Temporal reality / Lynne Rudder Baker
  • Time for a change : a polemic against the presentism-eternalism debate / Lawrence B. Lombard
  • Context, conditionals, fatalism, time travel, and freedom / John W. Carroll
  • The identity of the past / Mark Hinchliff
  • Identity through change and substitutivity salva veritate / Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton
  • Identifying the problem of personal identity / Ned Markosian
  • Persistence and responsibility / Neal A. Tognazzini
  • Descartes on persistence and temporal parts / Geoffrey Gorham
  • Persons, animals, and human beings / Harold Noonan
  • Me, again / Jenann Ismael
  • Selves and self-concepts / John Perry
  • Ex ante desire and post hoc satisfaction / Harriett Baber
  • Eternalism and death's badness / Ben Bradley
  • The time of the evil of death / Harry S. Silverstein
  • The retroactivity problem / Barbara Levenbook
  • Love conquers all, even time? / Andrew Light

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Volume

: hardcover ISBN 9780262014090

Description

The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience -- it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all -- and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about identity, particularly about the persistence of identical entities through change. Indeed, questions about the metaphysics of persistence take on many of the complexities inherent in philosophical considerations of time. This volume of original essays brings together these two essentially related concepts in a way not reflected in the available literature, making it required reading for philosophers working in metaphysics and students interested in these topics. The contributors, distinguished authors and rising scholars, first consider the nature of time and then turn to the relation of identity, focusing on the metaphysical connections between the two, with a special emphasis on personal identity. The volume concludes with essays on the metaphysics of death, issues in which time and identity play a significant role. This groundbreaking collection offers both cutting-edge epistemological analysis and historical perspectives on contemporary topics. ContributorsHarriet Baber, Lynne Rudder Baker, Ben Bradley, John W. Carroll, Reinaldo Elugardo, Geoffrey Gorham, Mark Hinchliff, Jenann Ismael, Barbara Levenbook, Andrew Light, Lawrence B. Lombard, Ned Markosian, Harold Noonan, John Perry, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater, Robert J. Stainton, Neil A. Tognazzini.
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: pbk ISBN 9780262513975

Description

Original essays on the metaphysics of time, identity, and the self, written by distinguished scholars and important rising philosophers. The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience-it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all-and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about identity, particularly about the persistence of identical entities through change. Indeed, questions about the metaphysics of persistence take on many of the complexities inherent in philosophical considerations of time. This volume of original essays brings together these two essentially related concepts in a way not reflected in the available literature, making it required reading for philosophers working in metaphysics and students interested in these topics. The contributors, distinguished authors and rising scholars, first consider the nature of time and then turn to the relation of identity, focusing on the metaphysical connections between the two, with a special emphasis on personal identity. The volume concludes with essays on the metaphysics of death, issues in which time and identity play a significant role. This groundbreaking collection offers both cutting-edge epistemological analysis and historical perspectives on contemporary topics. Contributors Harriet Baber, Lynne Rudder Baker, Ben Bradley, John W. Carroll, Reinaldo Elugardo, Geoffrey Gorham, Mark Hinchliff, Jenann Ismael, Barbara Levenbook, Andrew Light, Lawrence B. Lombard, Ned Markosian, Harold Noonan, John Perry, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater, Robert J. Stainton, Neil A. Tognazzini

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