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Index
List of Figures Introduction z. The Four-Dimensional Picture z. Against Presentism z i z. Cross-time spatial relations z5 3. The truth-maker objection 35 4. Presentism and special relativity 3. Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated z. Four-dimensional ism stated 55 3. What is three-dimensionalism? 4. Perdurance, endurance, presentism, and eternalism 68 4. In Favor of Four-Dimensional ism, Part z i. Russell's argument from parsimony z. The argument from logic 3. The A-theory of time is incoherent 78 4. Four-dimensional ism and special relativity 5. Space and time are analogous 6. The problem of temporary intrinsics 9z 7. Arguments from exotica 8. The argument from spacerime 9. The argument from vagueness izo 5. In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism, Part z: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence i. The threat of coincidence z. The worm theory and coincidence 152 3. Coinciding three-dimensional objects 4. Burke's dominance account 161 5. Temporary identity 165 6. Eliminativism 7. Mereological essentialism 18o 8. The stage view 188 6. Arguments against Four-Dimensionalism zo9 z. The no-change objection z1z 3. A crazy metaphysic z16 4. The modal argument z18 5. Motion in homogeneous substances zz4 References 2.37 Index z51 Anyone working on topics like mine, using the methods I use, is often asked a question something lik This view of quantification is absolutely central to this book. Without it, many of the questions ab A genuine no-conflict stuff ontology must claim that a truly fundamental description of the world mu A more extreme version of the no-conflict thesis, which purports to dissolve even the stuff versus t Not a shift in meaning of the predicate `keyboard'. For one thing, no stipulation I could make about But it is hard to see what other shifts in quantifier meaning there could be, other than shifts in r This dilemma for ontology does not apply to every metaphysical inquiry. Arguably, many metaphysical According to the `four-dimensional' conception of persons (and all other objects that persist over t This picture of persistence over time I have called four-dimensional ism is also known as the doctri and in the minds of non-philosophers as well (e.g. in the open- ingchapter of H. G. Wells, The Tim There is first the ontological status of the past and future. According to eternalism, past and futu consists only of actuals. The opposing position in the philosophy of modality, possibilisrn, accordi Do tensed judgments concern features of reality that are in some sense irreducibly tensed, or can th
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