Persistence contemporary readings (Bradford Books/MIT Press, 2006)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Identity, ostension, and hypostasis (1950) / W.V.O. Quine -- Spatial and temporal analogies and the concept of identity (1955) / Richard Taylor -- Selection from On the plurality of worlds (1986) / David Lewis -- Four-dimensionalism (1997) / Theodore Sider -- All the world's a stage (1996) / Theodore Sider -- Selections from How things persist (2002) / Katherine Hawley -- Parthood and identity across time (1983) / Judith J. Thomson -- Persistence, change, and explanation (1989) / Sally Haslanger -- Zimmerman and the spinning sphere (1999) / David Lewis -- One really big liquid sphere : reply to Lewis (1999) / Dean W. Zimmerman -- Persistence and non-supervenient relations (1999) / Katherine Hawley -- Four-dimensional objects (1990) / Peter van Inwagen -- Selections from Real time (1981) / Hugh Mellor -- Is there a problem about persistence? (1987) / Mark Johnston -- Is there a problem about persistence? (1987) / Graeme Forbes -- The puzzle of change (1996) / Mark Hinchliff -- A defense of presentism (2004) / Ned Markosian -- On passage and persistence (1994) / William. R. Carter and H. Scott Hestevold -- Presentism and ontological commitment (1999) / Theodore Sider -- Temporary intrinsics and presentism (1998) / Dean W. Zimmerman -- Tensing the copula (2002) / David Lewis -- The stage view and temporary intrinsics (2000) / Theodore Sider -- Persistence and space-time : philosophical lessons of the pole and barn (2000) / Yuri Balashov
Influential accounts of persistence how ordinary objects persist through time examine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic