Persistence and spacetime /
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 metap...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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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@ and coexistence in Minkowski spacetime
- Contextuality
- Chronological incoherence
- Some objections
- Shapes and other arrangements in Minkowski spacetime. How rigid is a granite block?
- Perspectives in space
- Perspectives in spacetime
- Are shapes intrinsic to objects?
- The causal objection
- The micro-reductive objection
- Pegs, boards, and shapes
- Perduring objects exist.