METAPHYSICS

use this book ” METAPHYSICS THE BIG QUESTIONS, SECOND EDITION, PETER VAN INWAGEN AND DEAN ZIMMERMAN.

Please answer all 3 questions.Question 1 has part a and b question 2 and 3 have parts a, b and c. each question should have at least 500 words for a total of 1500 words for this paper.

Question 1.A. In what way does C.D Broad’s growing block theory differ from presentism?

1.B Why do facts about the past pose a difficulty for presentism? do facts about the past pose a difficulty for Broad’s growing block theory? in each case, please be sure to justify your answer.

Question 2.A Suppose that your textbook is closed at one time and open at another time. Why, according to the principle of the indiscernibility of identicals,does this involve a contradiction?

2.B How does presentism avoid the contradiction?

2.C How does the perdurance (or temporal parts) theory avoid the contradiction?

Question 3.A Why is Locke’s memory criterion inadequate as a necessary condition for personal identity?

3.B Why is locke’s memory criterion inadequate as a sufficient condition for personal identity?

3.C What additional requirements are needed to eliminate the inadequacies of Locke’s criterion?

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