Change and Selves
by
Edo Pivcevic
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198242492
ISBN-13
9780198242499
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 8th, 1990
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.40 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontologyPhilosophy of science
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Arguing for an original approach to the problem of change and the self, this is a critique of the naturalism which is dominant in the contemporary philosophy of the English-speaking world. It sees the problem as a philosophical puzzle to which naturalistic science has no answer.
It is a trite fact that changes do occur, yet is it logically contradictory to deny that they do? If Zeno and McTaggart were right, then there is no logical contradiction in such a denial, although this is incompatible with the way in which we normally think of the world. Supporters of the `block view'' of the universe believe that there is a sense in which all events may be said to be contemporaneous, like episodes in a book, so that there is no `objective'' past or future.The aim of this book is not to demolish belief in the existence of objective change, but to elucidate the conditions under which it makes sense to suppose that changes occur. The book pays particular attention to the existence of selves as one such condition, and concludes that the naturalistic account of change is defective and leaves the sceptic victorious.
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