How Things Persist

Katherine Hawley explores and compares three theories of persistence -- endurance, perdurance, and stage theories - investigating the ways in which they attempt to account for the world around us. Having provided valuable clarification of its two main rivals, she concludes by advocating stage theory.

Katherine Hawley is Senior Lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews.

Introduction

1

(8)

1. Sameness and Difference

9

(28)

1.1 How Things Persist

9

(2)

1.2 Change and Perdurance

11

(3)

1.3 Change and Endurance

14

(2)

1.4 Properties as Relations to Times

16

(5)

1.5 Adverbialism: Instantiation as Relative to Times

21

(3)

1.6 Change, Parthood, and Being 'Wholly Present'

24

(6)

1.7 Time and Persistence

30

(4)

1.8 Conclusions, and Personal Persistence

34

(3)

2. Parts and Stages

37

(31)

2.1 Wholes and Parts, Properties and Predicates

37

(4)

2.2 Stage Theory

41

(5)

2.3 Developing Stage Theory

46

(2)

2.4 How Long are Stages?

48

(2)

2.5 Time and Change

50

(3)

2.6 Lingering and Historical Predicates

53

(4)

2.7 Reference and Reidentification

57

(5)

2.8 Sameness, Identity, and Counting

62

(2)

2.9 Personal Persistence

64

(4)

3. Sticking Stages Together

68

(32)

3.1 Non-supervenient Relations

72

(1)

3.2 The Homogeneous Disc Argument: Exposition

73

(1)

3.3 The No-difference Objection

74

(2)

3.4 Holographic Difference Objections

76

(9)

3.5 Non-supervenient Relations, and Alternatives

85

(5)

3.6 Natural Objects

90

(4)

3.7 Change

94

(2)

3.8 Reference

96

(2)

3.9 Personal Persistence

98

(2)

4. Vagueness

100

(40)

4.1 Sources of Vagueness

101

(4)

4.2 Against Vague Objects

105

(4)

4.3 Vague Words

109

(2)

4.4 Might the World be Vague?

111

(2)

4.5 Is the World Vague?

113

(3)

4.6 Ontic Indeterminacy and Endurance Theory

116

(1)

4.7 The Evans-Salmon Argument

117

(3)

4.8 Leibniz's Law and its Contrapositive

120

(3)

4.9 Transference

123

(2)

4.10 Is Alpha Identical to Omega?

125

(3)

4.11 Perdurance, Stages, and Ontic Indeterminacy

128

(3)

4.12 Semantic Indeterminacy and Persistence

131

(4)

4.13 Epistemic Accounts of Vagueness

135

(2)

4.14 Vagueness, Persistence, and People

137

(3)

5. Sheer Coincidence?

140

(36)

5.1 Constitution Theories

145

(4)

5.2 Perdurance Theory

149

(2)

5.3 Dominant Sortals

151

(3)

5.4 Temporary Identities

154

(2)

5.5 Stage Theory

156

(2)

5.6 Scepticism about Objects

158

(1)

5.7 A Complication: Two of a Kind?

159

(2)

5.8 How to Decide?

161

(3)

5.9 The Problems of the Many

164

(6)

5.10 Personal Persistence

170

(6)

6. Modality

176

6.1 Constitution Theories

178

(1)

6.2 Perdurance Theory

179

(1)

6.3 Dominant Sortals

180

(1)

6.4 Temporary Identities and Contingent Identities

181

(1)

6.5 Scepticism about Objects

182

(1)

6.6 Stage Theory

183

(1)

6.7 Modal Features of Stages

184

(5)

6.8 Vagueness Again

189

(1)

6.9 Sums of Stages, and Modal Inductility

189

(2)

6.10 Perdurance Theory and Modal Inductility

191

(4)

6.11 Stage Theory and Sums

195

(1)

6.12 Individual Predicates and Possible Worlds

196

(4)

6.13 Conclusions

200

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