Is Endurantism really more plausible than Perdurantism form a commonsense perspective?
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in: Praxis Filosofica, Jahrgang 45, 2017, S. 77-99.
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T1 - Is Endurantism really more plausible than Perdurantism form a commonsense perspective?
AU - Felletti, Flavia
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - I will discuss three arguments in favor of perdurantism, the thesis that objects persist by having temporal parts located at different times. Firstly, I will introduce the rival accounts of persistence of perdurantism and endurantism. Then I will discuss three arguments for perdurantism: the problem of temporary intrinsics, the argument from vagueness and the argument from Special Relativity. I will conclude that none of them represents a knock-down argument for perdurantism. However, endurantism faces important difficulties in offering its solutions to the issues at stake, and the solutions proposed are often at odds with commonsense. Therefore, if one of the main problem for perdurantism is its being at odds with commonsense, endurantism is in no better position with respect to this issue.
AB - I will discuss three arguments in favor of perdurantism, the thesis that objects persist by having temporal parts located at different times. Firstly, I will introduce the rival accounts of persistence of perdurantism and endurantism. Then I will discuss three arguments for perdurantism: the problem of temporary intrinsics, the argument from vagueness and the argument from Special Relativity. I will conclude that none of them represents a knock-down argument for perdurantism. However, endurantism faces important difficulties in offering its solutions to the issues at stake, and the solutions proposed are often at odds with commonsense. Therefore, if one of the main problem for perdurantism is its being at odds with commonsense, endurantism is in no better position with respect to this issue.
KW - Philosophy
KW - Metaphysics of time
KW - Endurantism
KW - Perdurantism
KW - Eternalism
KW - Temporal parts
KW - Constitution
KW - Mereology
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/0a41764b-c6ee-3bf5-8f7e-3640371a78de/
U2 - 10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i45S.6076
DO - 10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i45S.6076
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 45
SP - 77
EP - 99
JO - Praxis Filosofica
JF - Praxis Filosofica
SN - 0120-4688
ER -