Endurantism
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Endurantism or endurance theory is a philosophical theory of persistence and
One serious problem of endurantism is the problem of temporary intrinsics raised by
However, some philosophers, such as Haslanger, find a way to resolve this problem as Lewis's perdurantism does. Haslanger claims that Lewis's perdurantist solution is not the only solution, and endurantism can resolve this problem as well. She believes that Lewis's way does not directly answer the problem that objects that persist can change their intrinsic properties; he just finds a way to bypass it—the perdurer is not an object that keeps intrinsic properties unchanged over time
See also
- Alfred North Whitehead
- A-series and B-series
- Counterpart theory
- David Lewis
- Essentialism
- J. J. C. Smart
- Philosophy of time
References
- Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Temporal parts". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Lewis, D.K. 1986. On the Plurality of Worlds Oxford: Blackwell
- McKinnon, N. 2002. "The Endurance/Perdurance Distinction", The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80:3 p. 288-306.
- Merricks, T. 1999. "Persistence, Parts and Presentism", Noûs 33 p. 421-38.
- Sider, T. 2001. Four-Dimensionalism Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Zimmerman, D. 1996. "Persistence and Presentism", Philosophical Papers 25:2.