Yuri Balashov

Gebundenes Buch

Persistence and Spacetime

Beschreibung

How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in time, or are they four-dimensional spacetime "worms"? Yuri Balashov shows how Einstein's theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism, and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metaphysical issues.

Autor

Yuri Balashov is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, US. His current interests are in analytic ontology and philosophy of time. He has published extensively in major philosophy journals, such as Noûs, Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, The Monist, and British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and is a co-editor of Einstein Studies in Russia (Birkhäuser, 2002) and Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2002).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780199579921
• ISBN-10: 019957992X
• Artikelnr.: 28949629