I'd like to welcome our newest contributor, A.P. Taylor. A.P. is currently ABD at the University at Buffalo and will be starting full time as a Lecturer in Philosophy at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND in the Fall.
A.P. works in Metaphysics and Ethics (particularly personal identity, philosophy of time, meta-ethics, and well-being). He also has a paper "The frustrating problem for four-dimensionalism" in Phil Studies (2012).
Welcome!
Thanks Marcus. And Hello everyone. Been reading the Cocoon for a long time and I have enjoyed everyone's comments and insights. Perhaps I will have something to contribute before long.
Posted by: A.P. Taylor | 06/07/2013 at 11:26 AM
Welcome, A.P.!
Posted by: Matt DeStefano | 06/08/2013 at 04:42 PM
Comment for Adam P. Taylor, sorry if this is going via Marcus.
Adam, isn't a possible response for the fix you pose between 4-dimensionalism and belief-desire psychology this, following Sider's analysis.
Defn. A person entertains a mental state M iff that person is a part of an aggregate A of persons who are temporal counterparts, and M supervenes on A.
Granted this is an unnatural locution, but all serviceable metaphysics has unnatural aspects. If you feel moved to reply could you also sent to my eemail as I'm not in the habit of looking at this blog (I couldn't find your eemail on the web). My eeddress is paulpagetappenden at gmail dot com.
Posted by: Paul Tappenden | 09/17/2013 at 05:12 AM