Cosmic-Perdurantism.
Perdurantists hold that persons have temporal parts. But which of the objects is conscious—persons, their temporal parts, both? In this paper, I argue that Perdurantists have good metaphysical motivation to believe that, strictly speaking, it is the cosmos and only the cosmos that exhibits conscious...
| Published in: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 521 - 536 |
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