How Things Persist [Hardcover]

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

The case Hawley makes for stage theory is a persuasive one .How Things Persisis a well structured, well written, solid, crisp and lucid investigation into the cluster of metaphysical problems that surround the issue of persistence. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Katherine Hawley is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.