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Nihilist Perdurantism: A New Ontology Of Material Objects, Brian Matthew Carlson
Nihilist Perdurantism: A New Ontology Of Material Objects, Brian Matthew Carlson
Theses and Dissertations--Philosophy
Ordinary material objects, such as guitars and houses, do not seem to pose any serious philosophical problems. However, the nature of the material objects and their part-whole relation raises serious questions about fundamental ontologies. Furthermore, part-whole relations are not necessarily spatial; they can be temporal as well.
My dissertation investigates the problems posed by ordinary material objects, and the different ontological views that attempt to provide answers to these problems. I then present a new and radical view, which I call Nihilist Perdurantism (NP). NP claims that objects have temporal parts, but not spatial parts. I arrive at this view …