Time and Identity
$87.63
- Paperback
338 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2010
Summary
Original essays on the metaphysics of time, identity, and the self, written by distinguished scholars and important rising philosophers.The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience-it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all-and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face simil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262513975 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262513978 |
| Author: | Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 338 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Topics in Contemporary Philosophy |
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Critics Review
A surprisingly informative and useful volume…The editors deserve credit not just for selecting and editing these fine essays but for arranging them in a manner that highlights how the essays relate to each other…A very good book…It brings together essays that are each worth reading alone and that also contribute to a greater whole.
* Kronoscope *About The Author
Joseph Keim Campbell
Joseph Keim Campbell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University.Michael O’Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.Harry S. Silverstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University, and coeditor of three previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007), Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity (2010), all published by the MIT Press.Matthew H. Slater is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bucknell University.Robert J. Stainton is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario.John Perry is the H. W. Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.Harry S. Silverstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University, and coeditor of three previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007), Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity (2010), all published by the MIT Press.Andrew Light is Director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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