Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. This fifth volume is largely focused on the metaphysics of time, with sections on time travel; persistence through time; and time, space, andlocation. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here. INDICE: TIME TRAVEL, à la VAN INWAGEN; 1: Peter van Inwagen: Changing the Past; 2: Peter Forrest: Can a Soufflé Rise Twice? Van Inwagen's Irresponsible Time-travellers; 3: Hud Hudson and Ryan Wasserman: Van Inwagen on Time Travel and Changing the Past; PERSISTENCE THROUGH TIME; 4: Antony Eagle: Location and Perdurance; 5: Cody Gilmore: Coinciding Objects and Duration Properties: Reply to Eagle; 6: Antony Eagle: Duration in Relativistic Spacetime; 7: Daniel Z. Korman: Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness; 8: Thomas Sattig: Many as One; TIME, SPACE, AND LOCATION; 9: Bradford Skow: Extrinsic Temporal Metrics; 10: Maureen Donnelly: Parthood and Multi-Location; THE METAPHYSICS OF SOUNDS; 11: Casey O'Callaghan: Constructing a Theory of Sounds;12: Roger Scruton: Hearing Sounds; 13: Matthew Nudds: What Sounds Are; 14: Jonathan Cohen: Sounds and Temporality
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957578-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 334
- Fecha Publicación: 07/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés