Becoming a Statue. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mooney, Justin
• Is Part Of: Australasian journal of philosophy. Volume 101:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 228
• Page End: 239
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: material coincidence -- phase sortal -- statue and clay -- persistence; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2021.1975787
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0004-8402

Abstract

ABSTRACT: One simple but relatively neglected solution to the notorious coincidence puzzle of the statue and the piece of clay claims that the property of being a statue is a phase sortal property that the piece of clay instantiates temporarily. I defend this view against some standard objections, by reinforcing it with a novel counterpart-theoretic account of identity under a sortal. This proposal does not require colocation, four-dimensionalism, eliminativism, deflationism, or unorthodox theses about classical identity.