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 Lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews.

Introduction
1: Sameness and Difference
2: Parts and Stages
3: Sticking Stages Together
4: Vagueness
5: Sheer Coincidence?
6: Modality
Epilogue
Bibliography, Index