The Endurance/Perdurance Controversy is No Storm in a Teacup
(2014) In Axiomathes 24(4). p.463-482- Abstract
- Several philosophers have maintained in recent years that the endurance/perdurance debate is merely verbal: these prima facie distinct theories of objects’ persistence are in fact metaphysically equivalent, they claim. The present paper challenges this view. Three proposed translation schemes (those set forth by Miller 2005; McCall and Lowe 2006; Hirsch 2009) are examined; all are shown to be faulty. In the process, constructive reasons for regarding the debate as a substantive one are provided. It is also suggested that the theories may have differing practical implications.
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- Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias LU
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- publishing date
- 2014
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- endurance, metaphysical equivalence, perdurance, persistence, verbal dispute, deflationism
- in
- Axiomathes
- volume
- 24
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 463 - 482
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- wos:000345332200003
- scopus:84912070738
- ISSN
- 1572-8390
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10516-014-9233-z
- project
- Social Ontology and Theories of Persistence
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- d00eb71b-3fb3-4cc8-82bc-6067efb1e74e (old id 4253780)
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