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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001.
Full Description
Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to the challenges four-dimensionalism faces.
Theodore Sider pays particular attention to the philosophy of time, including a strong series of arguments against presentism, the thesis that only the present is real. Arguments offered in favour of four-dimensionalism include novel arguments based on time travel, the debate beween spacetime substantivalists and relationalists, and vagueness. Also included is a comprehensive discussion of the paradoxes of coinciding material objects, and a novel resolution of those paradoxes based on temporal counterpart theory. In conclusion Sider replies to prominent objections to four-dimensionalism, including discussion of the problem of the rotating homogenous disk.
Four Dimensionalism is an original and highly readable study of the metaphysics of time and identity.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. The Four-Dimensional Picture ; 2. Against Presentism ; 3. Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated ; 4. In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism Part 1 ; 5. In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism Part 2: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence ; 6. Arguments against Four-Dimensionalism ; Bibliography, Index
