Metaphysics to the rescue?: Four‐dimensionalism and the twinning argument against conceptionism

Bioethics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 542-548
Author(s):  
Chunghyoung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Four Dimensionalism

Monism and Statespace Structure

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Sider
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Four Dimensionalism

Exotic ontologies are all the rage. Distant from common sense and often science as well, views like mereological essentialism, nihilism, and four-dimensionalism appeal to our desire to avoid arbitrariness, anthropocentrism, and metaphysical conundrums.

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