How Things Persist

by Katherine Hawley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199249138
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/21/2002
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Sameness and Difference2. Parts and Stages3. Sticking Stages Together4. Vagueness5. Sheer Coincidence? 6. ModalityEpilogueBibliography, Index

Editorial Reviews

"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."—Mind

"The case Hawley makes for stage theory is a persuasive one . 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."—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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