How Things Persist

• fascinating subject
• original treatment of a set of hot topics
• part of a wave of new work bringing metaphysics back into philosophical fashion

Readership: Scholars and students of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language

Katherine Hawley, Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews

Review(s) from previous edition

"How Things Persist is a careful and clever defence of stage theory ... the book is not only a worthy defence of a novel ontology, it is also an instructive survey of the metaphysics of material objects in general and the philosophy of persistence in particular. - Trenton Merricks, Mind

"How Things Persist is a well structured, well written, solid, crisp and lucid investigation into the cluster of metaphysical problems that surround the issue of persistence." - Heather Dyke, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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