Material objects extend through space by having different spatial parts in different places.
But how do they persist through time? According to some philosophers, things have …

Substantivalists believe that there are regions of space or spacetime. Many substantivalists
also believe that there are entities (people, tables, social groups, electrons, fields, holes …

There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible
because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some …

The traditional theory of location is a bit more controversial. First, a note on my use of located
at: I will be following Hud Hudson in his use of this phrase as picking out a primitive relation …

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Page 1 pdf version of the entry Location and Mereology
https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2024/entries/location-mereology/ from the Spring 2024 …

Something is multi-located if and only if it is exactly located at two or more places at the
same time. Hudson1 and Pruss2 have already discussed how multi-location can solve …

Abstract Current formulations of Four-Dimensionalism may be objected to on grounds that
they are too inflexible: the formulations do not seem to allow for enough variety in the views …

Multilocation and Parsimony - Mooney - 2018 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy - Wiley Online
Library Skip to Article Content Skip to Article Information Wiley Online Library Wiley Online …

The aim of this dissertation is to convince you that time passes. It is commonly held that a
belief in time's passage is in conflict with relativistic physics and that our phenomenology as …

Some philosophers defend the possibility of synchronic multilocation, and have even used it
to defend other substantive metaphysical theses. But just how strong is the case for the …