A Persisting Equivalence

ABSTRACT In several articles, McCall and Lowe have claimed that endurantism and perdurantism are “equivalent.” From this, they conclude that there is no fact of the matter as to whether we live in an endurantist world or in a perdurantist world. In this paper, I use the notion of Morita equivalence to show in which precise sense, McCall and Lowe's equivalence claim turns out to be true.

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Noûs
Published
2026-01-20
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.70033
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Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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A Persisting Equivalence

Joshua Babic
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A Persisting Equivalence

Joshua Babic
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Abstract

ABSTRACT In several articles, McCall and Lowe have claimed that endurantism and perdurantism are “equivalent.” From this, they conclude that there is no fact of the matter as to whether we live in an endurantist world or in a perdurantist world. In this paper, I use the notion of Morita equivalence to show in which precise sense, McCall and Lowe's equivalence claim turns out to be true.

Noûs
Università della Svizzera italiana (CH)
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Reduced inequalities
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Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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