Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time | ||||
Miller (Kristie) | ||||
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Springer; 2006 edition (2 Jan. 2007)
"Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Introduction"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Introduction
Miller notes the following interdependencies between the book and her earlier work:
→ "Miller (Kristie) - What is Metaphysical Equivalence?".
→ "Miller (Kristie) - A New Definition of Endurance", and
→ "Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie) - There Is No Simpliciter Simpliciter"
→ "Miller (Kristie) - Blocking the path from vagueness to four dimensionalism", and
→ "Miller (Kristie) - Non-mereological Universalism"
→ "Miller (Kristie) - The Metaphysical Equivalence of Three and Four Dimensionalism", and
→ "Miller (Kristie) - Sparse Parts".
→ "Miller (Kristie) - The Metaphysical Equivalence of Three and Four Dimensionalism".
→ "Miller (Kristie) - Travelling in Time: How to Wholly Exist in Two Places at the Same Time".
→ "Miller (Kristie) - Enduring Special Relativity".
"Miller (Kristie) - What is Metaphysical Equivalence?"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 1
Sections
1.1. Case Studies
1.2. Defining Metaphysical Equivalence
3.1. Diagnosing a Practical Translation: Empirical Equivalence
3.2. Diagnosing a Practical Translation: the Principle of Charity
3.3. Diagnosing a Practical Translation: Explanatory Power
3.4. Diagnosing a Correct Translation: Explanatory Idle Elements
Paper Comment
Contrast with "Miller (Kristie) - What is Metaphysical Equivalence?".
"Miller (Kristie) - The Puzzles of Persistence"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 2
Sections
1.1. Change
1.2. Temporary Coincidence
1.3. Permanent Coincidence
1.4. Fission
2.1. Three-dimensionalism
2.2. Broadly Three-dimensionalist Approaches
2.3. Four-dimensionalism
2.4. Broadly Four-dimensionalist Approaches
"Miller (Kristie) - Defining Our Terms"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 3
Sections
2.1. Ancillary Commitments and Consistency
2.2. The Stage View1
3.1. Definition Difficulties
3.2. Possibilist Suggestions
4.1. Instantiating Properties Simpliciter
4.2. Having Parts Simpliciter
"Miller (Kristie) - Issues of Composition"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 4
Sections
2.1. The Argument from Vagueness
3.1. Fusions-at-a-time and Fusions (at a time)
3.2. Fusions-at-times and Temporal Parts
"Miller (Kristie) - The Metaphysical Equivalence of Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 5
Sections
3.1. Assertibility Mappings
3.2. Explanatory Equivalence
3.3. The Principle of Charity
"Miller (Kristie) - The Metaphysical Equivalence of Non-Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 6
Sections
1.1. Assertibility Mappings
1.2. Diagnosing a Practical Translation: Explanatory Equivalence
1.3. The Principle of Charity
2.1. Modal3 Inductility Arguments
2.2. Endurantists4 and Modal5 Inductility
4.1. The Transitivity of Equivalence
4.2. Unitary or Non-unitary?
"Miller (Kristie) - Travelling in Time"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 7
Sections
1.1. Time Travelling2 Perdurantists3
1.2. Time Travelling4 Three-dimensionalists
4.1. Knowing Which of Me Does What
4.2. Mereological Abstinence
"Miller (Kristie) - Empirical Equivalence and Special Relativity"
Source: Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 8
Sections
1.1. Presentism, Three-dimensionalism and Special Relativity
1.2. Special Relativity and Endurance
2.1. Co-existence and Endurance
2.2. Special Relativity, Parthood and Properties
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