The ideas of time and identification look right away unproblematic and frustratingly tricky. Time is an elaborate a part of our event -- it will appear that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any event in any respect -- and but recalcitrant questions about time stay. Is time genuine? Does time circulation? Do previous and destiny moments exist? Philosophers face equally obdurate questions on identification, quite in regards to the endurance of exact entities via switch. certainly, questions about the metaphysics of patience tackle some of the complexities inherent in philosophical concerns of time. This quantity of unique essays brings jointly those basically comparable thoughts in a manner now not mirrored within the to be had literature, making it required interpreting for philosophers operating in metaphysics and scholars attracted to those issues. The participants, distinctive authors and emerging students, first think about the character of time after which flip to the relation of identification, concentrating on the metaphysical connections among the 2, with a unique emphasis on own identification. the quantity concludes with essays at the metaphysics of dying, concerns during which time and identification play an important position. This groundbreaking assortment deals either state-of-the-art epistemological research and old views on modern topics.

ContributorsHarriet Baber, Lynne Rudder Baker, Ben Bradley, John W. Carroll, Reinaldo Elugardo, Geoffrey Gorham, Mark Hinchliff, Jenann Ismael, Barbara Levenbook, Andrew gentle, Lawrence B. Lombard, Ned Markosian, Harold Noonan, John Perry, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater, Robert J. Stainton, Neil A. Tognazzini.