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  title info:
    title: Persistence and spacetime
  title info:
    title: Persistence & spacetime
  name:
    name part: Balashov, Yuri
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, or are they four-dimensional spacetime 'worms'? Balashov shows how the theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metaphysical issues.
  table of contents: Background and assumptions. Persistence and philosophy of time -- Atomism and composition -- Scope -- Some matters of methodology -- Persistence, location, and multilocation in spacetime. Endurance, perdurance, exdurance : some pictures -- More pictures -- Temporal modification and the "problem of temporary intrinsics" -- Persistence, location, and multilocation in generic spacetime -- An alternative classification -- Classical and relativistic spacetime. Newtonian spacetime -- Neo-Newtonian (Galilean) spacetime -- Reference frames and coordinate systems -- Galilean transformations in spacetime -- Special relativistic spacetime -- Length contraction and time dilation -- Invariant properties of special relativistic spacetime -- Persisting objects in classical spacetime. Enduring, perduring, and exduring objects in Galilean spacetime -- The argument from vagueness -- From minimal D-fusions to temporal parts -- Motivating a sharp cutoff -- Some objections and replies -- Implications -- Persisting objects in Minkowski spacetime. Enduring, perduring, and exduring objects in Minkowski spacetime -- Flat and curved achronal regions in Minkowski spacetime -- Early reflections on persisting objects in Minkowski spacetime : Quine and Smart -- "Profligate ontology"? -- Is achronal universalism tenable in Minkowski spacetime? -- "Crisscrossing" and immanent causation -- Conclusion -- Coexistence in spacetime. The notion of coexistence -- Desiderata -- Coexistence in Galilean spacetime -- Coexistence in Minkowski spacetime : CASH -- Alexandrov-Stein present and Alexandrov-Stein coexistence -- AS-Coexistence v. CASH : symmetry, multigrade, and objectivity -- AS-coexistence v. CASH : relevance -- The mixed past of coexistence -- No need in the extended now -- Strange coexistence? Coexistence and existence@ -- The asymmetry thesis -- The absurdity thesis -- Collective CASH value of coexistence -- Collective existence@ and coexistence in classical spacetime -- Collective existence@ a…
  note: by Yuri Balashov.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
  subject:
    topic: Special relativity (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Generalized spaces
  subject:
    topic: Relativité restreinte (Physique)
  subject:
    topic: Espaces généralisés
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Generalized spaces
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
  subject:
    topic: Special relativity (Physics)
  classification: BD632 .B35 2010eb
  classification: 115
  classification: B016.9
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    origin info:
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    record creation date: 100723
    record change date: 20260318180420.8
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng