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Hawthorne, John (2008) “Three-Dimensionalism vs. Four-Dimensionalism” in Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, edited by Sider, Hawthorne and Zimmerman, Blackwell.

Hinchliff, Mark (2000) “A Defense of Presentism in a Relativistic Setting” Philosophy of Science 67 (Proceedings) pp. 575-586.

McTaggart, J. Ellis (1908) “The Unreality of Time” Mind, New series, Vol.17, No.68, pp. 457-474.

Prior, A.N. (2008) “Some Free Thinking about Time” in Metaphysics: the Big Questions edited by Van Inwagen and Zimmerman, Blackwell.

Prior, A.N. (2008) “Changes in Events and Changes in Things” in Metaphysics: the Big Questions edited by Van Inwagen and Zimmerman, Blackwell.

Prior, A.N. (2008) “The Notion of the Present” in Metaphysics: the Big Questions edited by Van Inwagen and Zimmerman, Blackwell.

Shoemaker, Sydney (2003) “Persons and their pasts” in Identity, Cause, and Mind, Clarendon Press 2003.

Sider, Ted (2003) Four-Dimensionalism, Oxford University Press. Ca 250 sider.

Simons, Peter (1987) Parts: A Study in Ontology, Oxford University Press, chapter 1.

Supplerende Pensum

Fine, Kit (2005) “Tense and Reality” in Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers, Oxford.

Hirsch, Eli (2002) “Quantifier Variance and Realism” Philosophical Issues, 12, Realism and Relativism.

Kripke, Saul (1972) Naming and Necessity, Harvard University Press.

Lewis, David (1983) “Survival and Identity” in Philosophical Papers Volume 1, Oxford.

Lewis, David (1983) “Counterparts of persons and their bodies” in Philosophical Papers Volume 1, Oxford.

Reichenbach, Hans (1959) “What is time?” in The rise of Scientific Philosophy, University of California Press.

Saunders, Simon (2002) “How relativity Contradicts Presentism” in Time, Reality and Experience, edited by Craig Callender, Cambridge University Press.

Shoemaker, Sydney (2003) “Time without change” in Identity, Cause, and Mind, Clarendon Press 2003.

Van Inwagen, Peter (2001) “Four Dimensional Objects” in Ontology, Identity and Modality, Cambridge University Press.

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