Ontologia czterowymiarowa a podróż w czasie analiza argumentu Theodore’a Sidera

• Authors: Adam Andrzejewski

Title variants

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Four-dimensional ontology and time travel analysis of Theodore Sider’s argument

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

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The main goal of this paper is to show that Theodore Sider’s argument from time travel cannot be treated as convincing, elegant, and in favour of perdurantism. The author reconstructs and debates foundations of Sider’s perdurantist time travel scenario. A set of arguments reveals a plethora of unwelcome metaphysical consequences of this vision, including problems of: (i) identification of temporal parts, (ii) person stages and (iii) identity. Agreeing with the latter, the author acknowledges a few general comments about using the possibility of time travel in ontological debate between perdurantism and endurantism.

Keywords

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time travel; time; endurantism; perdurantism; identity; Theodore Sider

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Szczeciński. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2012
• Issue: nr 17
• Pages: 163-180

Contributors

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Adam Andrzejewski

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii