Research library
The Research Library is a working catalogue of scholars, texts, papers, articles, lectures, and resources relevant to Hikmah Islam, organised by field, subject, method, and rational entailment.
- Name / Work:
- Type: Academic / Book / Paper / Article / Lecture / Website / Dataset
- Field:
- Subject:
- Related entailments:
- Use for WikiHikmah:
- Status: To read / Read / Important / Cited / Questionable
- Notes:
Philosophy
Metaphysics
Persistence, time, and identity
- Title: “Four Dimensionalism”
- Author: Theodore Sider
- Type: Journal article
- Publication: The Philosophical Review 106 (1997): 197–231
- Field: Philosophy
- Subject: Metaphysics; philosophy of time; persistence; identity over time; mereology
- Related Hikmah entailments: Perdurantism; B-theory of time; Eternalism; Ontological parsimony; Ontological priority
- Use for WikiHikmah: Useful for developing the argument that objects persist through temporal parts rather than being wholly present at each moment. Relevant to the Hikmah account of time, temporal extension, identity, and the ontology of the block universe.
- Status: To read / Important
- Notes: Sider argues for four-dimensionalism using considerations from vagueness and mereological composition.