The Transcendentist Theory of Persistence

Costa, Damiano

doi:10.5840/jphil201711425

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“…Damiano Costa has recently advocated a theory of persistence through time -transcendentism, as he calls it -according to which for a continuant (Costa uses the term 'object') to exist at a time is for it to participate in certain events that are located at that time(Costa 2017). This theory is similar to the view put forward here.…”

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Temporal existence and temporal location

Correia

Rosenkranz

2019

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Temporal existence and temporal location

Correia

Rosenkranz

2019

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“…As customary, we use the term "persist" as neutral between different accounts. Given that we are assuming an eternalist ontology, "persist" can be taken here as synonymous with "exist at various times" (cf.Lewis, 1986, p. 202).3 On the explanatory role of metaphysics see also(Schaffer, 2009;Fine, 2012).4 For discussion of "the locative turn"(Costa, 2017) of the debate about persistence, see(Hudson, 2001;Gilmore 2006Gilmore , 2007Gilmore , 2008Sattig, 2006;Parsons, 2000Parsons, , 2007.…”

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Explanation, persistence, and location

Torrengo

Buonomo²

2022

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According to the “received view” the disagreement between endurantism and perdurantism is ontological and concerns the existence of temporal parts of continuants. In a recent paper, (Wasserman 2016) argues that the ontological conception of these theories does not address the crucial point: explaining the way things persist. According to Wasserman, perdurantism is not just the view that things have temporal parts; it is the view that things persist by (or in virtue of) having temporal parts. Moreover, in the last decade an alternative understanding of the dispute between endurantism and perdurantism, the so called “locative turn”, has lead to an understanding of these two theories as concerning crucially locational rather than mereological notions. Our main aim in this paper is to bring together those two revisionary approaches to the received view, and show how they can enrich each other and open up further dimension of the debate. Finally in the last section we focus on some of the non-standard accounts of persistence and location that arise from this approach, such as “autonomism of persistence and location” and “reverse locational endurantism/perdurantism”.

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“…There are other views about the ways in which objects persist through time, and these could be used to construct alternative views about what persistence is. See, for instance, transcendentism, offered byCosta (2017) andCosta and Giordani (2016) and a critique byMiller (2013).…”

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Persistence

Miller

2022

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Persistence realism is the view that ordinary sentences that we think and utter about persisting objects are often true. Persistence realism involves both a semantic claim, about what it would take for those sentences to be true, and an ontological claim about the way things are. According to persistence realism, given what it would take for persistence sentences to be true, and given the ontology of our world, often such sentences are true. According to persistence error-theory, they are not. This Element considers several different views about the conditions under which those sentences are true. It argues for a view on which it is relatively easy to vindicate persistence realism, because all it takes is for the world to be the way it seems to us. Thereby it argues for the view that relations of numerical identity, or of being-part-of-the-same-object, are neither necessary nor sufficient for persistence realism.

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The Transcendentist Theory of Persistence

Abstract: This paper develops a new endurantistic theory of persistence. The theory is built around one basic tenet, which concerns the relation between objects and time, i.e. existence at a time. According to this tenet, for an object to exist at a

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