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Author: Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.541kg
ISBN: 9780199579921
ISBN 10: 019957992
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 29 April 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Balashov offers a powerful and sophisticated set of arguments from relativistic physics to a four-dimensionalist metaphysics of persisting objects. The book is extremely lucid, fair, and original throughout. It also contains an exceptionally clear and reader-friendly introduction to the relevant chunks of physics, so new-comers to relativity theory should find it accessible and engaging. Anyone with an interest in the metaphysics of material objects must come to terms with Balashovs arguments. Persistence and Spacetime is likely to be a major source of ideas and fruitful debate for many years to come. Cody Gilmore, University of California Discussions of persistence have tended to presume a prerelativistic conception of space and time, but it has become increasingly clear that this just won't do. Persistence and Spacetime is a wonderful example of how metaphysics and physics can combine forces to teach us the nature of spacetime and its denizens. Ted Sider, New York University
Persistence and Spacetime is a wonderful example of how metaphysics and physics can combine forces to teach us the nature of spacetime and its denizens. Ted Sider, Cornell University a powerful and sophisticated set of arguments from relativistic physics to a four-dimensionalist metaphysics of persisting objects. The book is extremely lucid, fair, and original throughout. It also contains an exceptionally clear and reader-friendly introduction to the relevant chunks of physics, so new-comers to relativity theory should find it accessible and engaging. Anyone with an interest in the metaphysics of material objects must come to terms with Balashov's arguments. Persistence and Spacetime is likely to be a major source of ideas and fruitful debate for many years to come. Cody Gilmore, University of California, Davis Balashov's engagement with both physics and metaphysics provides a model for how ontological enquiry ought to proceed. Antony Eagle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews a great resource for graduate seminars and for those working on persistence. Carolyn Brighouse, Metascience a great source of insights into the relation among science, common sense and philosophy ... Balashov has set the agenda of the persistence debate. Lorenzo del Savio, Humana Mente
Author Information
Yuri Balashov is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, US. His current interests are in analytic ontology and philosophy of time. He has published extensively in major philosophy journals, such as Noûs, Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, The Monist, and British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and is a co-editor of Einstein Studies in Russia (Birkhäuser, 2002) and Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2002).
