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.

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