Conservation, discontinuous time, and causal continuity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20313232 |
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| Authors | Eric Yang (0000-0003-2234-3269, Hillcrest Hospital, corresponding author), ERIC TIMOTHY YANG |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-93 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034412508009815 |
| OpenAlex | W2097102008 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
William Vallicella poses a dilemma for continuous-creation accounts of conservation, which he attempts to solve by conjoining presentism and four-dimensionalism. I claim that presentist four-dimensionalism fails to appreciate the real problem behind continuous creation and persistence, which is a presumption of the discontinuity of time. I will argue that if we assume that time is discontinuous, then, (1) presentist four-dimensionalism cannot alone account for persistence, and (2) created entities are also not in clear need of conservation in Vallicella's solution. Lastly, I conclude by suggesting that the worry over persistence for continuous creation is a problem only if persistence requires causal continuity
Epistemology · Persistence (discontinuity) · Political science · Presentism · Presumption · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Highly cited | No |
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