'Four-Dimensionalism': An Analysis and Interpretation

• Authors: Mariusz Grygianiec

Title variants

PL

'Four-Dimensionalism' - analiza i interpretacja

EN

'Four-Dimensionalism': An Analysis and Interpretation

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

There are several faces of Four-Dimensionalism. Sometimes 4D-ism is formulated as the thesis that the material world is composed of spatial as well as temporal parts. Another version of 4D-ism states that persisting objects are extended over time in the same way that they are extended over space. Some Four-Dimensionalists defend the thesis that all objects persist by perduring i.e. by having different temporal parts at different times. Sometimes 4D-ism means the same as eternalism - the thesis that past and future objects (and times) are just as real as currently existing ones. Finally it can mean the thesis that all objects are in fact four-dimensional i.e. they are in every case a filling of some subregions of space-time. The author examines some varieties of 4D-ism and tries to formulate both a precise meaning of those doctrines and an evaluation of them.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 105-120

Dates

published

2007-03-01

Contributors

author

Mariusz Grygianiec