Time and identity /

Contributors discuss the metaphysics of time, identity & the self. Beginning with the nature of time, they debate the metaphysical connections between time & identity, paying particular attention to personal identity.

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Other Authors: Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-, O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-, Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
©2010
Series:Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Framing the problems of time and identity / Matthew H. Slater
  • Time
  • Temporal reality / Lynne Rudder Baker
  • Time for a change : a polemic against the presentism-eternalism debate / Lawrence B. Lombard
  • Context, conditionals, fatalism, time travel, and freedom / John W. Carroll
  • The identity of the past / Mark Hinchliff
  • Identity
  • Identity through change and substitutivity salva veritate / Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton
  • Identifying the problem of personal identity / Ned Markosian
  • Persistence and responsibility / Neal A. Tognazzini
  • Descartes on persistence and temporal parts / Geoffrey Gorham
  • The self
  • Persons, animals, and human beings / Harold Noonan
  • Me, again / Jenann Ismael
  • Selves and self-concepts / John Perry
  • Ex ante desire and post hoc satisfaction / H.E. Baber
  • Death
  • Eternalism and death's badness / Ben Bradley
  • The time of the evil of death / Harry S. Silverstein
  • The retroactivity problem / Barbara Baum Levenbook
  • Postlude
  • Love conquers all, even time? / Andrew Light.