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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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
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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.