Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

We will discuss the question of whether a material object may be in two places at once. More precisely, we will ask whether one and the same material object may have more than one exact location. That is not all that plausible when it comes to spatial location. You may be tempted to dismiss the thought that a material object may have more than one exact spatial location at a given time as incoherent. But the stakes are higher when it comes to temporal location. For one way to make sense of endurance as a model of persistence is as the hypothesis that a material object is exactly located at every time at which they exist. The purpose of this talk is to argue for the coherence of that model of persistence.