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This book explores persistence, taking human beings as an example case. It investigates how concrete particulars stay the same during their temporal carriers while changing significantly. Themes of relativity, structural realism, 4-dimensional ontologies and different strains of panpsychism are amongst those addressed in this work. Beginning with an exploration of the puzzle of persistence, early chapters look at philosophers’ perspectives and models of persistence. Competitors in the debate are introduced, from classical 3-dimensionalism to two flavors of 4-dimensionalism, namely worm theory and stage theory. The second part of the book explores the various challenges to 4-dimensionalism and develops a positive taxonomy of those questions that the reasonable proponent of 4-dimensionlism needs to answer. In the third part of the book readers may explore an ontology at the interface of analytic metaphysics and philosophy of mind, called Real Fourdimensionalism, or more sp ecifically: Physicalistic Stage-Panexperientialism (PSP). This is a version of panexperiential stage theory and its alleged model of persistence-as-deciding answers the questions of the taxonomy. This book makes a substantial contribution to debates concerning the status, extent and viability of both stage theoretic models of persistence as well as non-reductive, naturalistic models of persistence. It will be of interest to graduates and scholars involved in analytic metaphysics, as well as the philosophy of mind, especially those specializing in questions of persistence and the ontology of the mind. .

Ontology. --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy)

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La notion de substrat a acquis progressivement une place centrale dans la philosophie ancienne, en particulier chez Aristote et chez les Stoïciens. Elle permet au premier, dans les textes de la Physique et des Catégories, de penser par exemple les notions de matière et de substance, de même qu'elle intervient dans la constitution de son projet métaphysique qui fait de la substance l'objet de la science recherchée.Les Stoïciens aussi accordent une grande importance à cette notion puisqu'ils en font le premier des genres à partir desquels ils analysent toute réalité. La notion de substrat est donc au coeur de la réflexion sur la question de l'être et son rôle est déterminant pour comprendre le traitement que reçoit cette question, de même que pour saisir le sens de la discipline (la métaphysique) qui prétend en faire son objet propre.Que devient cette question chez un auteur comme Plotin, avec lequel commence la tradition dite néoplatonicienne ? L'hypothèse de ce livre est que Plotin l'aborde en cherchant à défaire le lien établi avant lui, entre la substance et le substrat, et plus largement entre la métaphysique comme science de l'être et la question du substrat. Une nouvelle conception de l'être en résulte, qui repose sur des modèles originaux (l'implication et la coexistence) que l'on s'attache ici à mettre à jour et qui permettent de saisir la place singulière qu'occupe la pensée de Plotin dans l'histoire de la métaphysique.

Métaphysique --- Substrat (linguistique) --- Plotin, --- Substance (philosophie) --- Plotin --- Metaphysics --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophie) --- Plotinus --- Métaphysique --- Métaphysique.

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“Professor Loke has rapidly become a leading thinker in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. His body of writings simply must be considered if one is going to treat a relevant topic appropriately…This is an exceptional book. I highly recommend it.” —JP Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University, USA, and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology “Loke brings together a wealth of resources to tackle the cosmological argument…The reader will find that Loke effectively interacts with recent literature in a dialogical and persuasively analytic fashion.” —Bruce Reichenbach, Professor of Philosophy, Augsburg College, USA, and author of ‘Cosmological Argument’ in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This book develops a novel argument which combines the Kalam with the Thomistic Cosmological Argument. It approaches an ongoing dispute concerning whether there is a First Cause of time from a radically new point of view, namely by demonstrating that there is such a First Cause without requiring the controversial arguments against concrete infinities and against traversing an actual infinite (although the book presents original defenses of these arguments as well). This book also develops a novel philosophical argument for the Causal Principle, namely that ‘everything that begins to exist has a cause’, and offers a detailed discussion on whether a First Cause of time can be avoided by a causal loop. It also addresses epistemological issues related to the Cosmological Argument which have been relatively neglected by recent publications, and demonstrates (contra Hawking et al) the continual relevance and significance of philosophy for answering ultimate questions. Andrew Ter Ern Loke is Research Assistant Professor in Faith and Global Engagement at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Origins of Divine Christology (forthcoming), A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation (2014), and various articles in leading international journals in philosophy, science and religion, and theology.

Philosophy. --- Epistemology. --- Ontology. --- Religion --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Psychology --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- God --- Proof, Cosmological. --- Cosmological argument --- Cosmology --- Genetic epistemology. --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Religion—Philosophy.

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Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive-space, time, the void, and sense are the incorporeal conditions of all that is corporeal or material. In The Incorporeal Elizabeth Grosz argues that the ideal is inherent in the material and the material in the ideal, and, by tracing its development over time, she makes the case that this same idea reasserts itself in different intellectual contexts.Grosz shows that not only are idealism and materialism inextricably linked but that this "belonging together" of the entirety of ideality and the entirety of materiality is not mediated or created by human consciousness. Instead, it is an ontological condition for the development of human consciousness. Grosz draws from Spinoza's material and ideal concept of substance, Nietzsche's amor fati, Deleuze and Guattari's plane of immanence, Simondon's preindividual, and Raymond Ruyer's self-survey or autoaffection to show that the world preexists the evolution of the human and that its material and incorporeal forces are the conditions for all forms of life, human and nonhuman alike. A masterwork by an eminent theoretician, The Incorporeal offers profound new insight into the mind-body problem

Materialism. --- Idealism. --- Ontology. --- Ethics. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Being --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Animism --- Monism --- Personalism --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Materialism --- Realism --- Transcendentalism --- Physicalism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy)

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quantum beam sources --- synchrotron radiation --- X-rays --- gamma rays --- positrons --- high-strength lasers --- Matter --- Nuclear physics --- Particle accelerators --- Analysis --- Accelerators, Particle --- Atom smashers --- Charged particle accelerators --- Accelerator mass spectrometry --- Atoms --- Dynamics --- Gravitation --- Physics --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Instruments --- Nuclear physics. --- Particle accelerators. --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Atomic Physics --- x-rays --- Nuclear energy