Real Fourdimensionalism: An Essay in the Ontology of Persistence and Mind

by Ludwig Jaskolla

Book Overview

This book explores persistence, taking human beings as an example case. It investigates how concrete particulars stay the same during their temporal carriers while changing significantly. Themes of relativity, structural realism, 4-dimensional ontologies and different strains of panpsychism are amongst those addressed in this work.

Beginning with an exploration of the puzzle of persistence, early chapters look at philosophers' perspectives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331965926X
• ISBN13: 9783319659268
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"