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Jul 2010
ISBN 0262014092
312 pp.
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Time and Identity
Joseph Keim Campbell , Michael O'Rourke and Harry S. Silverstein

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.

Table of Contents
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction: Framing the Problems of Time and Identity
by Matthew H. Slater
I Time
1 Temporal Reality
by Lynne Rudder Baker
2 Time for a Change: A Polemic against the Presentism-Eternalism Debate
by Lawrence B. Lombard
3 Context, Conditionals, Fatalism, Time Travel, and Freedom
by John W. Carroll
4 The Identity of the Past
by Mark Hinchliff
II Identity
5 Identity through Change and Substitutivity Salva Veritate
by Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton
6 Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity
by Ned Markosian
7 Persistence and Responsibility
by Neal A. Tognazzini
8 Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts
by Geoffrey Gorham
III The Self
9 Persons, Animals, and Human Beings
by Harold Noonan
10 Me, Again
by Jenann Ismael
11 Selves and Self-Concepts
by John Perry
12 Ex Ante Desire and Post Hoc Satisfaction
by H. E. Baber
IV Death
13 Eternalism and Death's Badness
by Ben Bradley
14 The Time of the Evil of Death
by Harry S. Silverstein
15 The Retroactivity Problem
by Barbara Baum Levenbook
V Postlude
16 Love Conquers All, Even Time?
by Andrew Light
 Contributors
 Index
 
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