How Things Persist
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780199275434
First sentence: The world is a fairly stable place.
Table of contents: label: chapter 1
title: Sameness and Difference
pagenum: 9; label: section 1
title: How Things Persist
pagenum: 9; label: section 2
title: Change and Perdurance
pagenum: 11; label: section 3
title: Change and Endurance
pagenum: 14; label: section 4
title: Properties as Relations to Times
pagenum: 16; label: section 5
title: Adverbalism: Instantiation as Relative to Times
pagenum: 21; label: section 6
title: Change, Parthood, and Being 'Wholly Present'
pagenum: 24; label: section 7
title: Time and Persistence
pagenum: 30; label: section 8
title: Conclusions, and Personal Persistence
pagenum: 34; label: chapter 2
title: Parts and Stages
pagenum: 37; label: section 1
title: Wholes and Parts, Properties and Predicates
pagenum: 37; label: section 2
title: Stage Theory
pagenum: 41; label: section 3
title: Developing Stage Theory
pagenum: 46; label: section 4
title: How Long are Stages?
pagenum: 48; label: section 5
title: Time and Change
pagenum: 50; label: section 6
title: Lingering and Historical Predicates
pagenum: 53; label: section 7
title: Reference and Reidentification
pagenum: 57; label: section 8
title: Sameness, Identity, and Counting
pagenum: 62; label: section 9
title: Personal Persistence
pagenum: 64; label: chapter 3
title: Sticking Stages Together
pagenum: 68; label: section 1
title: Non-supervenient Relations
pagenum: 72; label: section 2
title: The Homogenous Disc Argument: Exposition
pagenum: 73; label: section 3
title: The No-difference Objection
pagenum: 74; label: section 4
title: Holographic Difference Objections
pagenum: 76; label: section 5
title: Non-supervenient Relations, and Alternatives
pagenum: 85; label: section 6
title: Natural Objects
pagenum: 90; label: section 7
title: Change
pagenum: 94; label: section 8
title: Reference
pagenum: 96; label: section 9
title: Personal Persistence
pagenum: 98; label: chapter 4
title: Vagueness
pagenum: 100; label: section 1
title: Sources of Vagueness
pagenum: 101; label: section 2
title: Against Vague Objects
pagenum: 105; label: section 3
title: Vague Worlds
pagenum: 109; label: section 4
title: Might the World be Vague?
pagenum: 111; label: section 5
title: Is the World Vague?
pagenum: 113; label: section 6
title: Ontic Indeterminancy and Endurance Theory
pagenum: 116; label: section 7
title: The Evans-Salmon Argument
pagenum: 117; label: section 8
title: Leibniz's Law and its Contrapositive
pagenum: 120; label: section 9
title: Transference
pagenum: 123; label: section 10
title: Is Alpha Identical to Omega?
pagenum: 125; label: section 11
title: Perdurance, Stages, and Ontic Indeterminancy
pagenum: 128; label: section 12
title: Semantic Indeterminancy and Persistence
pagenum: 131; label: section 13
title: Epistemic Accounts of Vagueness
pagenum: 135; label: section 14
title: Vagueness, Persistence, and People
pagenum: 137; label: chapter 5
title: Sheer Coincidence?
pagenum: 140; label: section 1
title: Constitution Theories
pagenum: 145; label: section 2
title: Perdurance Theories
pagenum: 149; label: section 3
title: Dominant Sortals
pagenum: 151; label: section 4
title: Temporary Identities
pagenum: 154; label: section 5
title: Stage Theory
pagenum: 156; label: section 6
title: Scepticism about Objects
pagenum: 158; label: section 7
title: A Complication: Two of a Kind?
pagenum: 159; label: section 8
title: How to Decide?
pagenum: 161; label: section 9
title: The Problems of the Many
pagenum: 164; label: section 10
title: Personal Persistence
pagenum: 170; label: chapter 6
title: Modality
pagenum: 176; label: section 1
title: Constitution Theories
pagenum: 176; label: section 2
title: Perdurance Theories
pagenum: 179; label: section 3
title: Dominant Sortals
pagenum: 180; label: section 4
title: Temporary Identities and Contingent Identities
pagenum: 181; label: section 5
title: Scepticism about Objects
pagenum: 182; label: section 6
title: Stage Theory
pagenum: 183; label: section 7
title: Modal Features of Stages
pagenum: 184; label: section 8
title: Vagueness Again
pagenum: 189; label: section 9
title: Sums of Stages, and Modal Inductility
pagenum: 189; label: section 10
title: Perdurance Theory and Modal Inductility
pagenum: 191; label: section 11
title: Stage Theory and Sums
pagenum: 195; label: section 12
title: Individual Predicates and Possible Worlds
pagenum: 196; label: section 13
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 200