Priority PerdurantismAnnalen der Philosophie - - Trang 1-26 - 2022
Jeremy W. Skrzypek
In this paper, I introduce a version of perdurantism called Priority Perdurantism, according to which perduring, four-dimensional objects are ontologically fundamental and the temporal parts of those objects are ontologically derivative, depending for their existence and their identity on the four-dimensional wholes of which they are parts. I argue that by switching the order of the priority relat...... hiện toàn bộ
Book ReviewAnnalen der Philosophie - Tập 65 - Trang 427-432 - 2007
Donata Romizi
Hamiltonian PrivilegeAnnalen der Philosophie - - Trang 1-24 - 2023
Josh Hunt, Gabriele Carcassi, Christine Aidala
We argue that Hamiltonian mechanics is more fundamental than Lagrangian mechanics. Our argument provides a non-metaphysical strategy for privileging one formulation of a theory over another: ceteris paribus, a more general formulation is more fundamental. We illustrate this criterion through a novel interpretation of classical mechanics, based on three physical conditions. Two of these conditions ...... hiện toàn bộ
PrefaceAnnalen der Philosophie - Tập 83 - Trang 1-1 - 2017
Achim Stephan, Sven Walter