Unity and Time in Metaphysics

Edited by Ludger Honnefelder, Edmund Runggaldier, and Benedikt Schick.

Twelve contributions deal with the fundamental problem of unity, which plays a decisive role in many contemporary debates. Questions like whether there can be unities that persist through time, e.g. persons who remain the same throughout their lives, are discussed from various perspectives. - Contents: Lynne Rudder Baker: Identity Across Time. A Defense of Three-Dirnensionalism. - LudgerJansen: Unity and Constitution of Social Entities. - Uwe Meixner: The Non-Physicalness of Material Objects. - E. Jonathan Lowe: Serious Endurantism and the Strong Unity of Human Persons. - Cody Gilmore: Why Parthood Might Be a Four-Place Relation, and How It Behaves If It Is. - Frank Hofmann: An Alternative to Endurantism and Perdurantism. Doing without Occupants. - Jan Szaif: The Beginnings of Greek Ontology and the Question of Temporal Being. - Simo Knuuttila: New Ideas on Subject and Identity in Medieval Logic. - Ludger Honnefelder: Time and Existence. - Edmund Runggaldier: Against Conventionalism. Powers and Functions. - Stephen Mumford: Powers and Persistence. - Godehard Brüntrup: Natural Individuals and Intrinsic Properties. VIII,254 Seiten, gebunden (Walter de Gruyter Verlag 2009)