Eternalist Theories of Persistence Through Time: Where the Differences Really Lie |
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Authors: | Jiri Benovsky |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, Av. de I’ Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | The eternalist endurantist and perdurantist theories of persistence through time come in various versions, namely the two
versions of perdurantism: the worm view and the stage view, and the two versions of endurantism: indexicalism and adverbialism. Using as a starting point the instructive case of what is depicted by photographs, I will examine these four views, and
compare them, with some interesting results. Notably, we will see that two traditional enemies—the perdurantist worm view
and the endurantist theories—are more like allies: they are much less different than what is usually thought, and some alleged points of central disagreement fall prey to
closer scrutiny. The aim of this paper is to examine carefully all those points, and to call attention to the places where
the real differences between these views lie. I will then turn to the perdurantist stage view, and claim that with respect
to some central issues it is the view that is the most different from the other three, but that in some places the reason
why it different is also the reason why it is less satisfactory.
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Keywords: | Perdurantism Endurantism Persistence through time Eternalism |
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