Descartes on Numerical Identity and Time

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (2):230-246 (2022)
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According to most contemporary philosophers, the Indiscernibility of Identicals is obviously true. We might therefore expect earlier philosophers to endorse it. But I will use a puzzle about identity over time to argue that Descartes would reject it.

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10.1080/00048402.2021.1907759

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