عنوان

Persistence and Spacetime

کد کشور

IR

شماره

991243

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

کشور محل نشر

IR

عنوان اصلي

Persistence and Spacetime

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

/ Yuri Balashov

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Oxford ; New York

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

: Oxford University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

, 2010.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xvi, 233 p.

ساير جزييات

: , ill

متن يادداشت

Print

متن يادداشت

Bibliography

يادداشت هاي مربوط به نمايه ها، چکيده ها و منابع

Index

متن يادداشت

Background and assumptions. Persistence and philosophy of time ; Atomism and composition ; Scope ; Some matters of methodology - Persistence, location, and multilocation in spacetime. Endurance, perdurance, exdurance : some pictures ; More pictures ; Temporal modification and the "problem of temporary intrinsics" ; Persistence, location and multilocation in generic spacetime ; An alternative classification - Classical and relativistic spacetime. Newtonian spacetime ; Neo-Newtonian (Galilean) spacetime ; Reference frames and coordinate systems ; Galilean transformations in spacetime ; Special relativistic spacetime ; Length contraction and time dilation ; Invariant properties of special relativistic spacetime - Persisting objects in classical spacetime. Enduring, perduring, and exduring objects in Galilean spacetime ; The argument from vagueness ; From minimal D-fusions to temporal parts ; Motivating a sharp cutoff ; Some objections and replies ; Implications - Persisting objects in Minkowski spacetime. Enduring, perduring, and exduring objects in Minkowski spacetime ; Flat and curved achronal regions in Minkowski spacetime ; Early reflections on persisting objects in Minkowski spacetime : Quine and Smart ; "Profligate ontology"? ; Is achronal universalism tenable in Minkowski spacetime? ; "Crisscrossing" and immanent causation - Coexistence in spacetime. The notion of coexistence ; Desiderata ; Coexistence in Galilean spacetime ; Coexistence in Minkowski spacetime : CASH ; Alexandrov-Stein present and Alexandrov-Stein coexistence ; AS-Coexistence v. CASH : symmetry, multigrade, and objectivity ; As-coexistence v. CASH : relevance ; The mixed past of coexistence ; No need in the extended now - Strange coexistence? Coexistence and existence@ ; The asymmetry thesis ; The absurdity thesis ; Collective CASH value of coexistence ; Collective existence@ and coexistence in classical spacetime ; Collective existence@ and coexistence in Minkowski spacetime ; Contextuality ; Chronological incoherence ; Some objections - Shapes and other arrangements in Minkowski spacetime. How rigid is a granite block? ; Perspectives in space ; Perspectives in spacetime ; Are shapes intrinsic to objects? ; The causal objection ; The micro-reductive objection ; Pegs, boards, and shapes ; Perduring objects exist.

عنوان گونه گون

Persistence & spacetime

موضوع مستند نشده

Space and time

موضوع مستند نشده

Special relativity (Physics)

موضوع مستند نشده

Generalized spaces

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Balashov, Yuri, 1960-

کشور

ایران

سازمان

Library of Foreign Languages and Islamic resource

وضعیت فهرست نویسی

old catalog

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

BL

پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است

1

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y