Chapter 1, Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. List of chapters v
3. Foreword 7
4. Part I: Persistence through time
5. Chapter 1, Introduction & definitions 19
6. Chapter 2, Problems with presentism 27
7. Chapter 3, The presentist perdurantist view 35
8. Chapter 4, The problem of change in temporary intrinsic properties 45
9. Chapter 5, Coincidence and vagueness 67
10. Chapter 6, The Ship of Theseus 85
11. Chapter 7, The worm view and the stage view 91
12. Chapter 8, Four-dimensionalism and common sense 103
13. Chapter 9, The modal objection 113
14. Part II: Persistence across possible worlds
15. Chapter 1, Introduction 121
16. Chapter 2, Modal realism 125
17. Chapter 3, Straightforward trans-world identity 129
18. Chapter 4, Modal counterpart theory 133
19. Chapter 5, Partial trans-world identity 137
20. Chapter 6, Modal perdurants 153
21. Chapter 7, Genuine actualism – modal fictionalism 175
22. Chapter 8, Abstractionism-Ersatzism-Actualism 197
23. Chapter 9, Abstractionism and trans-world identity 207
24. Chapter 10, Abstractionism and counterpart theory 217
25. Chapter 11, Abstractionism and modal perdurants 233
26. Chapter 12, Bundle-bundle-bundle theory 241
27. List of figures : 269
28. Bibliography 271