Self‐Visitation and the Metaphysics of Place, Causation, and Facts

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ABSTRACTI explore how endurantists are to handle cases of synchronic bi‐location, in which a thing bi‐locates at a time (such as by time‐travel). I argue that endurantists face significant pressure to posit distinct but structurally identical facts (DSIFs), and critique the fragmentalist approach to bi‐location in Simon (2018). Both the positive argument and critique are animated by the observation that handling bi‐location cases requires perspicuously describing their spatiotemporal and causal structure. Accordingly, the argument proceeds by considering how endurantists are to think about the metaphysics of place and causation, two issues that are important independent of the thesis about DSIFs.