Issues in Theoretical Diversity : Persistence, Composition, and Time
- Author
- Kristie Lyn Miller
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Social Science
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Our world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks. But in virtue of what do a bunch of little objects get to compose some bigger object, and how does that bigger object persist through time? This book aims to answer these questions, but it does so by looking at accounts of composition and persistence through a new methodological lens. It asks the question: what does it take for two theories to be genuinely different, and how can we know whether what seems like metaphysical disagreement is really just semantic disagreement
Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Composition / Four-dimensionalism /Persistence / Theoretical Equivalence / Three-dimensionalism / Issue
