Four-Dimensionalism An Ontology of Persistence and Time [Hardcover]

Lucid, absorbing, and original, this book defends the theory that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. Along the way, it addresses many topics on the metaphysics of time and identity. These include the status of past and future objects, the nature of motion and change, the existence of composite objects, and examples involving two things in the same place at the same time.

Introduction
1. The Four-Dimensional Picture
2. Against Presentism
3. Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated
4. In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism Part 1
5. In Favor of Four-Dimensionalism Part 2: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence
6. Arguments against Four-Dimensionalism
Bibliography, Index