PERSISTENCE EGALITARIANISM

Kurtsal, Irem

doi:10.11612/resphil.1877

PERSISTENCE EGALITARIANISM

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https://dspace.allegheny.edu/handle/10456/55915

Author(s)

Kurtsal, Irem

Date Issued

January 2021

Abstract

Modal Plenitude-the view that, for every empirically adequate modal profile, there is an object whose modal profile it is-is held to be consistent with each of endurantist and perdurantist (three- and four-dimensionalist) views of persistence. Here I show that, because endurer and perdurer are two substantially different kinds of entity, compossible with each other and consistent with empirical data, Modal Plenitude actually entails a third view about persistence that I call Persistence Egalitarianism. In every non-empty spacetime region there are two persisting objects: one that endures through the temporal dimension of that region, and another that perdures through the region. Additionally, if the argument from anthropocentrism makes a strong case for Modal Plenitude, then an equally strong and parallel case supports Persistence Egalitarianism. I close with the meta-semantic consequences of persistence egalitarianism for ordinary object talk.

Journal

Res Philosophica

Department

Philosophy and Religious Studies

Citation

Kurtsal, Irem. "Persistence Egalitarianism." Res Philosophica 98, no. 1 (2021): 63-88. doi:10.11612/resphil.1877.

Publisher

Philosophy Documentation Center

Version of Article

Published article

DOI

10.11612/resphil.1877

ISSN

2168-9105

2168-9113

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