Can I be an Instantaneous Stage and yet Persist Through Time?
Författare
Redaktör
- Martin Jönsson
Summary, in Swedish
An alternative to the standard endurance/perdurance accounts of persistence has recently been developed: the stage theory (Sider, 2001; Hawley, 2001). According to this theory, a persisting object is identical with an instantaneous stage (temporal part). On the basis of Leibniz’s Law, I argue that stage theorists either have to deny the alleged identity (i.e. give up their central thesis) or hold that stages are both instantaneous and continuants. I subsequently show that, although stage theory is flexible enough to accommodate the latter claim, the cost for accommodating it is an excessive proliferation of persistence concepts.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
78-82
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Procedings of the 2008 Lund-Rutgers Conference, Lund Philosophy Reports 2008:1
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Lund University (Media-Tryck)
Ämne
- Philosophy
Nyckelord
- persistence
- stage theory
- temporal counterparts
- predication
- Leibniz’s Law
Conference name
The 2008 Lund-Rutgers Conference
Conference date
2008-01-30 - 2008-01-31
Conference place
Sweden
Status
Published