Endurantist and perdurantist accounts of persistence.

In this paper, I focus on three issues intertwined in current debates between endurantists and perdurantists-(i) the dimension of persisting objects, (ii) whether persisting objects have timeless, or only time-relative, parts, and (iii) whether persisting objects have proper temporal parts. I argue...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 154; no. 1; pp. 27 - 52
Autor principal: Donnelly, Maureen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature May2011
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Sumario:In this paper, I focus on three issues intertwined in current debates between endurantists and perdurantists-(i) the dimension of persisting objects, (ii) whether persisting objects have timeless, or only time-relative, parts, and (iii) whether persisting objects have proper temporal parts. I argue that one standard endurantist position on the first issue is compatible with standard perdurantist positions on parthood and temporal parts. I further argue that different accounts of persistence depend on the claims about objects' dimensions and not on the auxiliary claims about parthood and temporal parts.