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Jul 2010
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ISBN
0262014092
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| Time and Identity |
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Joseph Keim Campbell
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Michael O'Rourke
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Harry S. Silverstein
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The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult.
Time is an intricate part of our experience-it would seem that the passage of time is a
prerequisite for having any experience at all-and yet recalcitrant questions about time
remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face
similarly stubborn questions about identity, particularly about the persistence of identical
entities through change. Indeed, questions about the metaphysics of persistence take on many
of the complexities inherent in philosophical considerations of time. This volume of original
essays brings together these two essentially related concepts in a way not reflected in the
available literature, making it required reading for philosophers working in metaphysics and
students interested in these topics.
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