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Personal Identity

Perdurantism

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. As developed by W.V. Quine, David Lewis, Ted Sider and others, Perdurance – otherwise known as Four-Dimensionalism (4-D) – is to be contrasted with Endurance² and Exdurance³.
  2. I will take "Sider (Ted) - Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time" as my primary text, though "Kurtz (Roxanne) - Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?", the introduction to "Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings", provides a good overview of these matters.
  3. The logical problems with 4-D need to be carefully considered and, for good or ill, the four-dimensional approach has the advantage – or maybe disadvantage – of undermining the reduplication objection⁴ to identity⁵ being maintained in certain fission⁶ thought experiments⁷.
  4. Does 4-D imply fatalism⁸? According to perdurantism, a thing is a 4-D object, but not only do we not know the future, but the future may not even exist.
  5. How does this tie in with Lewis’s realism about possible worlds? Maybe if possible worlds are real, all possible futures are real as well.
  6. Note that perdurantism is inimical to a high view of substance⁹. A temporal worm cannot change, it just is. The purpose of positing substances is as the enduring things that change¹⁰.
  7. Perdurance also impacts on Leibniz’s Law, where property exemplification is usually taken to be relative to a time.
  8. Look at the adverbial defence of endurantism. See "Haslanger (Sally) - Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics" (probably … this is the explicit response to Lewis)
     → "Haslanger (Sally) - Persistence, Change, and Explanation",
     → "Haslanger (Sally) - Persistence Through Time" and
     → "Haslanger (Sally) - Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things"; and
     → "Kurtz (Roxanne) - Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?" in "Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings" seems to cover much the same ground).
  9. If perdurantism really is incompatible with a high view of substance¹¹, then I may not need a chapter on perdurance (though I would have thought that I would need to argue for the incompatibility), and I can thereby ignore perdurantist objections to the cogency of reduplication objections.
  10. I note also that Eric Olson sets perdurance to one side. He assumes that we are concrete substances that “endure through time by being wholly present at different times”. He claims₁₂ that if this (and a couple of other assumptions) should be false, then there are no substantive metaphysical questions of our identity over time, only semantic ones.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. Olson also sets to one side two other issues, namely that there are no such things as persons¹³ (taken to be “rational conscious beings such as you and I”) and that the classical notion of strict numerical identity¹⁴ is correct, rejecting relative identity¹⁵.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Haslanger (Sally) - Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
  2. "Haslanger (Sally) - Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things", 1994, Internal PDF Link
  3. "Haslanger (Sally) - Persistence Through Time", 2003, Read = 6%
  4. "Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings", 2006, Book, Read = 30%
  5. "Kurtz (Roxanne) - Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?", 2006, Write-Up Note¹⁶, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read
  6. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", 1997, Book, Read
  7. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Alternatives", 1999, Read
  8. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", 1999, Read
  9. "Sider (Ted) - Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time", 2003, Book, Read = 12%
• For a page of Links¹⁷ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁸, include₁₉ the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Hawley (Katherine) - How Things Persist: Introduction", 2001
    2. "Kurtz (Roxanne) - Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?", 2006, Write-Up Note²⁰, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Lewis (David) - On the Plurality of Worlds (Selections)", 2006
    4. "Lewis (David) - Survival and Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", 1997, Book
    6. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Alternatives", 1999
    7. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", 1999
    8. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
    9. "Sider (Ted) - Four-Dimensionalism: Introduction", 2003, Annotations
    10. "Sider (Ted) - In Favour of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 2: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence", 2003, Annotations
    11. "Sider (Ted) - The Four-Dimensional Picture", 2003, Annotations
    12. "Strawson (Galen) - Why I Have No Future", 2007?, Write-Up Note²¹, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Balashov (Yuri) - On Stages, Worms, and Relativity", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Balashov (Yuri) - On Vagueness, 4D and Diachronic Universalism", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Balashov (Yuri) - Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Balashov (Yuri) - Relativistic Objects", 1999, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Balashov (Yuri) - Relativity and Persistence", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Balashov (Yuri) - Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts: A Reply to Gilmore", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Baxter (Donald L.M.) - Aspects and the Alteration of Temporal Simples", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    8. "Bottani (Andrea C.) - Van Inwagen on Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time", 2002, No Abstract
    9. "Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie) - Talking about a Universalist World", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    10. "Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie) - The Loneliness of Stages", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    11. "Brogaard (Berit) - Presentist Four-Dimensionalism", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Butterfield (Jeremy) - On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter", 2004-5, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₂
    13. "Butterfield (Jeremy) - On the Persistence of Particles", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Butterfield (Jeremy) - Spatial and Temporal Parts", 1985, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Butterfield (Jeremy) - The Rotating Discs Argument Defeated", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Carter (William) & Heller (Mark) - Metaphysical Boundaries: A Question of Independence", 1989, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Chisholm (Roderick) - The Doctrine of Temporal Parts", 1976, No Abstract
    18. "Copeland (B. Jack), Dyke (Heather) & Proudfoot (Diane) - Temporal parts and their individuation", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Costa (Damiano), Gilmore (Cody) & Calosi (Claudio) - Relativity and Three Four-Dimensionalisms", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
    20. "Davidson (Matthew) - Critical Notice: 'Four Dimensionalism' by Theodore Sider", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Dorato (Mauro) - Presentism / Eternalism and Endurantism / Perdurantism: why the unsubstantiality of the first debate implies that of the second", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    22. "Doyle (Robert O.) - Persistence (Perdurance and Endurance)", 1998, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Fischer (Florian) - Philosophy of time: A slightly opinionated introduction", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    24. "Friebe (Cord) - Eternalism and the Temporal Content of Persistence", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    25. "Gilmore (Cody) - Balashov on Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Gilmore (Cody) - Time Travel, Coinciding Objects and Persistence", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₃
    27. "Gorham (Geoffrey) - Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts", 2002, Read = 7%
    28. "Hales (Steven D.) & Johnson (Timothy A.) - Endurantism, Perdurantism and Special Relativity", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    29. "Haslanger (Sally) - Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    30. "Haslanger (Sally) - Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things", 1994, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Haslanger (Sally) - Persistence Through Time", 2003, Read = 6%
    32. "Haslanger (Sally) - Persistence, Change, and Explanation", 1989, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings", 2006, Book, Read = 30%
    34. "Hawley (Katherine) - David Lewis on Persistence", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Read = 44%
    35. "Hawley (Katherine) - Modality", 2001 / 2004
    36. "Hawley (Katherine) - Persistence and Determination", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 60%
    37. "Hawley (Katherine) - Review of Ted Sider's Four-Dimensionalism", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    38. "Hawley (Katherine) - Sameness and Difference", 2001
    39. "Hawley (Katherine) - Sheer Coincidence?", 2001
    40. "Hawley (Katherine) - Temporal Parts", 2004-15, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 9%
    41. "Heller (Mark) - Temporal Overlap Is Not Coincidence", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    42. "Heller (Mark) - Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects", 1984, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    43. "Heller (Mark) - The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter", 1990, Book, Read = 4%
    44. "Heller (Mark) - Varieties of Four Dimensionalism", 1993, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    45. "Hinchliff (Mark) - The Puzzle of Change", 1996, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    46. "Hofmann (Frank) - Substrate", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    47. "Hofweber (Thomas) - How to Endure", 2010, Internal PDF Link
    48. "Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person", 2001, Book, Read = 2%
    49. "Hudson (Hud) - The Metaphysics of Hyperspace", 2008, Book, Read = 10%
    50. "Hughes (Christopher) - More Fuss About Formulation: Sider (and me) on Three- and Four-Dimensionalism", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    51. "Kaiserman (Alexander) - Stage Theory and the Personite Problem", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 44%
    52. "LePoidevin (Robin) - Temporal Parts", 1991
    53. "Lewis (David) - Rearrangement of Particles: Reply to Lowe", 1988, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    54. "Lewis (David) - Zimmerman and the Spinning Sphere", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    55. "Lombard (Lawrence B.) - The Doctrine of Temporal Parts and the 'No-Change' Objection", 1994, Internal PDF Link
    56. "Loux (Michael) - Concrete Particulars II: Persistence Through Time", 2002, Read = 3%
    57. "Loux (Michael) - Endurantism and Perdurantism", 2001
    58. "Lowe (E.J.) - Lewis on Perdurance Versus Endurance", 1987, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    59. "Lowe (E.J.) - Qualitative Change and the Doctrine Of Temporal Parts", 2002
    60. "Lowe (E.J.) - Vagueness and Endurance", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    61. "Mackie (Penelope) - Coincidence and Identity", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    62. "Markosian (Ned) - Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity", 2002, Read = 11%
    63. "Markosian (Ned) - The 3D/4D Controversy and Non-Present Objects", 1994, Internal PDF Link
    64. "McGrath (Matthew) - Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence", 2007, Footnote₂₄
    65. "Meiland (Jack W.) - Temporal Parts and Spatio-Temporal Analogies", 1966, Internal PDF Link
    66. "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - The Disappearance of Change: Towards a Process Account of Persistence", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    67. "Merricks (Trenton) - Perdurance and Psychological Continuity", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    68. "Merricks (Trenton) - Persistence, Parts and Presentism", 1999
    69. "Miller (Kristie) - A New Definition of Endurance", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    70. "Miller (Kristie) - Blocking the path from vagueness to four dimensionalism", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    71. "Miller (Kristie) - Ought a Four-Dimensionalist To Believe in Temporal Parts?", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    72. "Miller (Kristie) - Travelling in Time: How to Wholly Exist in Two Places at the Same Time", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 29%
    73. "Moyer (Mark) - Does Four-Dimensionalism Explain Coincidence?", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    74. "Moyer (Mark) - Why We Shouldn't Swallow Worm Slices: A Case Study in Semantic Accommodation", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    75. "Noonan (Harold) - A Flawed Argument for Perdurance – Reply to Braddon-Mitchell and Miller", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    76. "Noonan (Harold) - A Note on Temporal Parts", 1985, No Abstract
    77. "Noonan (Harold) - Moderate Monism, Sortal Concepts, and Relative Identity", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    78. "Noonan (Harold) - Reply to Spinks on Temporal Parts", 1987, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    79. "Noonan (Harold) - The Case for Perdurance", 2001, No Abstract
    80. "Noonan (Harold) - The Four-Dimensional World", 1976, Internal PDF Link
    81. "Oaklander (L. Nathan) - Personal Identity, Responsibility And Time", 2003, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    82. "Oaklander (L. Nathan) - Temporal Passage and Temporal Parts", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    83. "Oderberg (David) - The Myth of Continuity: What's Wrong with Four-Dimensionalism?", 1993
    84. "Parsons (Josh) - Review of Theodore Sider's 'Four-Dimensionalism'", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    85. "Patton (Michael F.) - Full-Time Objections to Part-Time Objects", 1991
    86. "Rea (Michael) - Four-Dimensionalism", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    87. "Rea (Michael) & Silver (David) - Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    88. "Rettler (Bradley) - McTaggart and indexing the copula", 2012, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    89. "Sattig (Thomas) - Identity in 4D", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    90. "Sattig (Thomas) - Temporal Parts and Complex Predicates", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    91. "Sattig (Thomas) - Temporal Predication with Temporal Parts and Temporal Counterparts", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    92. "Sattig (Thomas) - Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism", 2006
    93. "Scala (Mark) - Homogeneous Simples", 2002
    94. "Schlesinger (George N.) - Spatial, Temporal and Cosmic Parts", 1985, No Abstract
    95. "Sider (Ted) - Four-Dimensionalism", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    96. "Sider (Ted) - Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time", 2003, Book, Read = 12%
    97. "Sider (Ted) - Precis of Four-Dimensionalism", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    98. "Sider (Ted) - Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated", 2003, Read = 6%
    99. "Skow (Bradford) - Once Upon a Spacetime", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
    100. "Slater (Matthew H.) - Framing the Problems of Time and Identity", 2002, Read = 38%
    101. "Sosa (Ernest) - Surviving Matters", 1990, Internal PDF Link
    102. "Spinks (Graham) - Noonan on Temporal Parts", 1986, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    103. "Taylor (Richard) - Spatial and Temporal Analogies and the Concept of Identity", 1955, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    104. "Tognazzini (Neal A.) - Persistence and Responsibility", 2002, Read = 5%
    105. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    106. "Varzi (Achille) - Change, Temporal Parts, and the Argument from Vagueness", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    107. "Varzi (Achille) - Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    108. "Wasserman (Ryan) - Framing the Debate over Persistence", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    109. "Zimmerman (Dean) - One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    110. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Scala and the Spinning Spheres", 2002
    111. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines", 1998, Internal PDF Link

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder²⁵.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 12:

1. See:-
   → "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", pp. 4-5 and
   → "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Alternatives",
   both in "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology".

Footnote 19:

• I’ve ignored those items where I have noted in my write-ups that perdurantism would solve some reduplication problem.

Footnote 22:

• The three papers by Butterfield are very specialised, and this one is very long, and may be left to one side for now.

Footnote 23:

• An important-looking paper, also against perdurantism, along similar lines to "McGrath (Matthew) - Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence".

Footnote 24:

• This looks like an important paper, which rejects the “proofs” of 4D based on the “coincidence” TEs.

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Table of the Previous 10 Versions of this Note:

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04/05/2022 21:46:05	8549	Perdurantism
02/07/2021 20:32:38	7714	Perdurantism
16/02/2021 01:00:29	6665	Perdurantism
18/03/2020 21:20:10	4347	Perdurantism
14/07/2019 18:05:46	2757	Perdurantism
11/03/2018 20:19:41	4057	Perdurantism
18/12/2010 19:58:05	2251	Perdurantism
26/11/2007 23:25:26	2254	Perdurantism
12/08/2007 10:17:46	691	Four Dimensionalism

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Perdurantism	Persistence

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Change	Endurantism	Exdurantism	Fission
Kurtz - Persistence (Introduction)	Logic of Identity	Modality	Nihilism	Note Links Explanation
Numerical Identity	Plug Note Apologia	Reduplication Objections	Relative Identity	Strawson - Why I Have No Future
Substance	Thought Experiments	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - Personal Identity Over Time	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?	Baker - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution
Baker - The Human Animal: Response to Olson	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution	Blackburn - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Brain Criterion	Change
Clones	Closest Continuer	Coincidence	Constitution	Counting Persons, 2, 3
Duplication, 2	Endurantism	Exdurantism, 2, 3	Fission	Kurtz - Persistence (Introduction)
Lewis	Logic of Identity, 2	Markosian - The Human Animal: Three Problems for Olson	Narrative Identity	Occasional Identity, 2
Olson - Immanent Causation and Life After Death	Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2	Olson - What Are We? Constitution	Olson - What Are We? The Question	Olson - What Are We? What Now?
Origins	Persistence, 2, 3	Personal Identity and Moral Action. T1	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Properties
Psychological Continuity - Forward, 2	Psychological Criterion	Reduplication Objections	Replication	Research - Proposal
Ship of Theseus, 2, 3	Strawson - Why I Have No Future	Substance	Teletransportation, 2, 3, 4, 5	Temporary Intrinsics
Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Thesis - Current Stance	Thinking Animal Argument
Time	Time Travel	Universals	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Aeon	Video - Not the same river. Not the same man.	Paper		Yes
Anscombe (G.E.M.)	Were You a Zygote?	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Response to Eric Olson	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Constitution	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper		Yes
Balashov (Yuri)	On Stages, Worms, and Relativity	Paper	2
Balashov (Yuri)	Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn	Paper
Balashov (Yuri)	Relativity and Persistence	Paper	2
Balashov (Yuri)	Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts: A Reply to Gilmore	Paper
Birch (Jonathan)	The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI	Book
Blackburn (Simon)	Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Paper
Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie)	Talking about a Universalist World	Paper	2
Brennan (Andrew)	Discontinuity and Identity	Paper
Butkovic (Ana)	Does Identity Really Matter? Parfit vs Lewis	Paper
Butterfield (Jeremy)	On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Butterfield (Jeremy)	On the Persistence of Particles	Paper	2
Cameron (Ross P.)	Tropes, Necessary Connections, and Non-Transferability	Paper
Cerullo (Michael A.)	Uploading and Branching Identity	Paper
Chandler (Hugh S.)	Theseus' Clothes-Pin	Paper		Yes
Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality	Paper	2	Yes
Costa (Damiano), Gilmore (Cody) & Calosi (Claudio)	Relativity and Three Four-Dimensionalisms	Paper	2
Crane (Tim)	Substance (4-Lecture BA Course)	Paper		Yes
Dorato (Mauro)	Presentism / Eternalism and Endurantism / Perdurantism: why the unsubstantiality of the first debate implies that of the second	Paper	2, 3
Ehring (Douglas)	Personal Identity and Time Travel	Paper		Yes
Fischer (Florian)	Philosophy of time: A slightly opinionated introduction	Paper
Forrest (Peter)	Endurance and Fatalism	Paper
Friebe (Cord)	Eternalism and the Temporal Content of Persistence	Paper
Gilmore (Cody)	Balashov on Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts	Paper	2
Gilmore (Cody)	Time Travel, Coinciding Objects and Persistence	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Gorham (Geoffrey)	Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts	Paper	2
Hales (Steven D.) & Johnson (Timothy A.)	Endurantism, Perdurantism and Special Relativity	Paper	2
Hanley (Richard)	The Metaphysics of Star Trek: To Beam or Not to Beam?	Paper		Yes
Haslanger (Sally)	Persistence Through Time	Paper	2
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book	2, 3
Hawley (Katherine)	David Lewis on Persistence	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Hawley (Katherine)	How Things Persist	Book
Hawley (Katherine)	How Things Persist: Introduction	Paper	2	Yes
Hawley (Katherine)	Modality	Paper	2
Hawley (Katherine)	Persistence and Determination	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Hawley (Katherine)	Review of Ted Sider's Four-Dimensionalism	Paper	2
Hawley (Katherine)	Sameness and Difference	Paper
Hawley (Katherine)	Sheer Coincidence?	Paper
Hawley (Katherine)	Vagueness	Paper
Hinchliff (Mark)	The Puzzle of Change	Paper
Hofmann (Frank)	Substrate	Paper
Hofweber (Thomas)	How to Endure	Paper	2, 3
Johnston (Mark)	Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?	Paper	2
Kaiserman (Alexander)	Stage Theory and the Personite Problem	Paper
Krauss (Lawrence M.)	The Physics of Star Trek: Atoms or Bits?	Paper		Yes
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Lewis (David)	On the Plurality of Worlds (Selections)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Lewis (David)	Rearrangement of Particles: Reply to Lowe	Paper
Lewis (David)	The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Liao (S. Matthew)	The Organism View Defended	Paper		Yes
Look (Brandon C.)	The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	Paper		Yes
Loux (Michael)	Concrete Particulars II: Persistence Through Time	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Loux (Michael)	Endurantism and Perdurantism	Paper
Lowe (E.J.)	Qualitative Change and the Doctrine Of Temporal Parts	Paper	2
Lowe (E.J.)	Review of Noonan's 'Personal Identity'	Paper
Lowe (E.J.)	Vagueness and Endurance	Paper	2, 3
Mackie (Penelope)	Coincidence and Identity	Paper	2
Markosian (Ned)	Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity	Paper
Markosian (Ned)	The 3D/4D Controversy and Non-Present Objects	Paper
Markosian (Ned)	Three Problems for Olson's Account of Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Human Persons – A Process View	Paper		Yes
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Persons as Biological Processes: A Bio-Processual Way Out of the Personal Identity Dilemma	Paper
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Powers, Persistence and Process	Paper
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	The Disappearance of Change: Towards a Process Account of Persistence	Paper
Mellor (D.H.)	Real Time: Introduction and Summary	Paper		Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism	Paper
Merricks (Trenton)	Persistence, Parts and Presentism	Paper	2, 3
Miller (Kristie)	A New Definition of Endurance	Paper
Miller (Kristie)	Blocking the path from vagueness to four dimensionalism	Paper
Miller (Kristie)	Ought a Four-Dimensionalist To Believe in Temporal Parts?	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Miller (Kristie)	Travelling in Time	Paper
Miller (Kristie)	Travelling in Time: How to Wholly Exist in Two Places at the Same Time	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Moyer (Mark)	Does Four-Dimensionalism Explain Coincidence?	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	A Flawed Argument for Perdurance – Reply to Braddon-Mitchell and Miller	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Identity	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Identity and Determinacy	Paper	2	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Identity and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Identity: Introduction	Paper	2
Noonan (Harold)	Moderate Monism, Sortal Concepts, and Relative Identity	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Immanent Causation and Life After Death	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? What Now?	Paper		Yes
Preyer (Gerhard) & Siebelt (Frank)	Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis	Book
Rea (Michael)	Four-Dimensionalism	Paper	2, 3
Rea (Michael) & Silver (David)	Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity	Paper
Rettler (Bradley)	McTaggart and indexing the copula	Paper
Sattig (Thomas)	Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism	Paper	2
Scala (Mark)	Homogeneous Simples	Paper	2, 3, 4
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Immortality	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time	Book
Sider (Ted)	Persistence and Parthood Seminar	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated	Paper
Slater (Matthew H.)	Framing the Problems of Time and Identity	Paper	2
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper		Yes
Smith (Quentin) & Oaklander (L. Nathan)	Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics	Book
Sosa (Ernest)	Surviving Matters	Paper	2, 3, 4
Strawson (Galen)	Why I Have No Future	Paper		Yes
Taylor (James Stacey)	The Myth of Posthumous Harm	Paper		Yes
Theodoridis (Kyriakos)	Review of 'Persistence - Contemporary Readings' by Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurz	Paper	2
Thompson (Jon W.)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Change	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Clones	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Closest Continuer	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Coincidence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Counting Persons	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Duplication	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Endurantism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Exdurantism	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fission	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Lewis	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Logic of Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Narrative Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Occasional Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Origins	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistence	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Properties	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity - Forward	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reduplication Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Replication	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ship of Theseus	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Substance	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Teletransportation	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Temporary Intrinsics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thinking Animal Argument	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Time	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Time Travel	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Universals	Paper		Yes
Tognazzini (Neal A.)	Persistence and Responsibility	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Material Beings: Preface	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Varzi (Achille)	Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers	Paper
Velleman (David)	So It Goes	Paper		Yes
Vonnegut (Kurt)	Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death	Book		Yes
Wasserman (Ryan)	Framing the Debate over Persistence	Paper
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Constitution Question	Paper
Wilson (Jack)	Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Persistence and Presentism	Paper	2, 3, 4

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Identity Across Time: A Defense of Three-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Benedikt Schick and Edmund Runggaldier, Eds., Unity and Time as Problem Across Metaphysics, pages 1–14. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2009	7%
Balashov (Yuri)	Enduring and Perduring Objects in Minkowski Space-Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 99 (2000): 129−166	No
Balashov (Yuri)	On Stages, Worms, and Relativity	Paper - Cited	Time, Reality, and Experience, Craig Callender, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2002	No
Balashov (Yuri)	On Vagueness, 4D and Diachronic Universalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005)	No
Balashov (Yuri)	Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts: A Reply to Gilmore	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 124 (2005): 1140	No
Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds.	Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity	22%
Bottani (Andrea C.)	Van Inwagen on Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Bottani - Individuals, Essence and Identity, 2002, pp. 413-426	No
Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds.	Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds. - Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	1%
Botterell (Anthony)	Temporal Parts and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica 5.2 (2004), pp. 5-24	No
Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie)	Talking about a Universalist World	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies: Vol. 130, No. 3 (Sep., 2006), pp. 499-534	3%
Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie)	The Loneliness of Stages	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jul., 2004), pp. 235-242	11%
Brogaard (Berit)	Presentist Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2000, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p341, 16p	No
Carrara (Massimiliano)	Comments on Hughes	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialectica, 59.4, December 2005, pp. 481-484(4)	No
Carter (William)	On Contingent Identity and Temporal Worms	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 41: 213-230, 1982	No
Chisholm (Roderick)	Person and Object	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Chisholm (Roderick) - Person and Object	1%
Chisholm (Roderick)	The Doctrine of Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Chisholm - Person and Object, 1976, Appendix A	No
Clark (Michael)	Time Slices of Particular Continuents as Basic Individuals: An Impossible Ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 1978, 33: 403-408	No
Coburn (Robert)	The Persistence of Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul., 1976), pp. 173-184	No
Copeland (B. Jack), Dyke (Heather) & Proudfoot (Diane)	Temporal parts and their individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Oct2001, Vol. 61 Issue 4, p289, 5p	No
Correia (Fabrice)	Comments on Varzi	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialectica, 59.4, December 2005, pp. 499-502(4)	No
Costa (Damiano), Gilmore (Cody) & Calosi (Claudio)	Relativity and Three Four-Dimensionalisms	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy Compass, 11:2, 2016, 102-120	27%
Davidson (Matthew)	Critical Notice: 'Four Dimensionalism' by Theodore Sider	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Books 45 (1):17-33 (2004)	No
Della Rocca (Michael)	Primitive Persistence and the Impasse between Three Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, CVIII, 11 (November 2011): pp. 591-616	17%
Divers (John)	Coincidence and Form	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 82 (2008), pp. 119-137	No
Dorato (Mauro)	Presentism / Eternalism and Endurantism / Perdurantism: why the unsubstantiality of the first debate implies that of the second	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophia Naturalis 49 (1):25-41 (2012)	7%
Dorato (Mauro)	Presentism and the Experience of Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Topoi 34 (1):265-275 (2015)	6%
Dorato (Mauro)	The Irrelevance of the Presentist / Eternalist Debate for the Ontology of Minkowski Spacetime	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Foundations of Physics: The Ontology of Spacetime, D. Dieks (Editor), Chapter 5, 2006, Elsevier	11%
Doyle (Robert O.)	Persistence (Perdurance and Endurance)	Paper - By Subtopic	Personal Website	No
Eagle (Anthony)	Reply to Stone on Counterpart Theory and Four-dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 67 (2007): 159–62	No
Fischer (John Martin), Ed.	The Metaphysics of Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Fischer (John Martin), Ed. - The Metaphysics of Death	4%
Friebe (Cord)	Eternalism and the Temporal Content of Persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophia Naturalis, 2012	7%
Gallois (Andre)	Comments on Ted Sider: Four Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXVII, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 648-657	No
Gallois (Andre)	Occasions of Identity : a Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gallois (Andre) - Occasions of Identity : a Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness	No
Gallois (Andre)	The Four-Dimensional World	Paper - By Subtopic	Gallois - Occasions of Identity, 1998, Chapter 10	No
Gilmore (Cody)	Balashov on Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 109: 241-263 (June 2002)	No
Gilmore (Cody)	Persistence and Location in Relativistic Spacetime	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy Compass 3/6 (2008): 1224–1254	4%
Hales (Steven D.) & Johnson (Timothy A.)	Endurantism, Perdurantism and Special Relativity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 53 Issue 213, p524, 16p	No
Haslanger (Sally)	Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - Cited	Analysis 49, 1989, pp. 119-125	33%
Haslanger (Sally)	Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things	Paper - Cited	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72:3; 339-359. 1994.	No
Haslanger (Sally)	Persistence Through Time	Paper - Cited	M. J. Loux and D.W. Zimmerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (OUP, 2003)	6%
Haslanger (Sally)	Persistence, Change, and Explanation	Paper - Cited	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	No
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - Cited	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	30%
Hawley (Katherine)	David Lewis on Persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	Blackwell Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, 2015	44%
Hawley (Katherine)	How Things Persist	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	5%
Hawley (Katherine)	How Things Persist: Introduction	Paper - Cited	Hawley - How Things Persist, Introduction	Yes
Hawley (Katherine)	Persistence and Determination	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy 83 supplement 62 (2008), 197-212 (special issue on Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics)	60%
Hawley (Katherine)	Review of Ted Sider's Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, 40, Number 2, June 2006, pp. 380-394(15)	8%
Hawley (Katherine)	Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2004-15	9%
Hawthorne (John)	Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. - Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, 2008	11%
Hawthorne (John), Scala (Mark) & Wasserman (Ryan)	Recombination, Humean Supervenience and Causal Constraints: an Argument for Temporal Parts?	Paper - By Subtopic	Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1: pp. 301-318. 2003.	10%
Heller (Mark)	Appropriateness and Paraphrase	Paper - By Subtopic	Heller - The Ontology of Physical Objects, Chapter 4, pp. 110-160	No
Heller (Mark)	Conventional Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Heller - The Ontology of Physical Objects, Chapter 2, pp. 30-67	No
Heller (Mark)	Preface: The Ontology of Physical Objects - Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter	Paper - By Subtopic	Heller - The Ontology of Physical Objects, Preface	33%
Heller (Mark)	Temporal Overlap Is Not Coincidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2000, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p362, 19p	No
Heller (Mark)	Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Heller - The Ontology of Physical Objects, Chapter 1, pp. 1-29	6%
Heller (Mark)	Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	5%
Heller (Mark)	The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter	Book - Cited	Heller (Mark) - The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter	4%
Heller (Mark)	The Sorites Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	Heller - The Ontology of Physical Objects, Chapter 3, pp. 68-109	No
Heller (Mark)	Varieties of Four Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy 71 (1):47 – 59 (1993)	No
Hershenov (David)	Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism and Moral Status	Paper - By Subtopic	Persons, Moral Worth and Embryos: A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments from Philosophy, Law and Science ed. Steve Napier. Philadelphia: National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2011, 125-144	11%
Hershenov (David)	Four-Dimensional Animalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Blatti & Snowdon - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, 2016: Part II, Chapter 10, pp. 208-226	25%
Hershenov (David)	Perdure and Murder	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, 2011	8%
Hirsch (Eli)	Comments on Theodore Sider's Four Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXVII, No. 3, May 2004, pp/ 658-664	No
Hofweber (Thomas)	How to Endure	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Quarterly, July 2010	No
Hudson (Hud)	A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person	Book - Cited	Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person	2%
Hudson (Hud)	The Metaphysics of Hyperspace	Book - Cited	Hudson (Hud) - The Metaphysics of Hyperspace	10%
Hughes (Christopher)	More Fuss About Formulation: Sider (and me) on Three- and Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialectica, 59.4, December 2005, pp. 463-480(18)	No
Koslicki (Kathrin)	The Crooked Path From Vagueness To Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 114, No. 1/2, Selected Papers from the 2002 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference at Western Washington University (May, 2003), pp. 107-134	No
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper - Cited	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Yes
LePoidevin (Robin)	Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	LePoidevin - Change, Cause and Contradiction: a defence of the tenseless theory of time, 1991, Chapter 4, pp. 58-75	No
Lewis (David)	On the Plurality of Worlds (Selections)	Paper - Cited	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Yes
Lewis (David)	Philosophical Papers Volume I	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Lewis (David)	Survival and Identity	Paper - Cited	Lewis - Philosophical Papers Volume I, Part 1: Ontology, Chapter 5	Yes
Lewis (David)	Tensed Quantifiers	Paper - By Subtopic	Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 2003, 1: 3-14	No
Lewis (David)	Tensing the Copula	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	17%
Lewis (David)	Zimmerman and the Spinning Sphere	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	17%
Lombard (Lawrence B.)	On the Alleged Incompatibility of Presentism and Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophia 27: 253-260. 1999.	22%
Lombard (Lawrence B.)	The Doctrine of Temporal Parts and the 'No-Change' Objection	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54.2 June 1994, pp. 365-372	No
Loux (Michael)	Endurantism and Perdurantism	Paper - By Subtopic	Loux - Metaphysics - Contemporary Readings	No
Loux (Michael), Ed.	Metaphysics - Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Loux (Michael), Ed. - Metaphysics - Contemporary Readings	1%
Lowe (E.J.)	A Survey of Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lowe (E.J.) - A Survey of Metaphysics	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Lewis on Perdurance Versus Endurance	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 47, 1987, pp. 152-154	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Qualitative Change and the Doctrine Of Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - A Survey of Metaphysics, Chapter 3	No
Lowe (E.J.)	The Problems of Intrinsic Change: Rejoinder to Lewis	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 48, 1988, pp. 72-77	No
Mackie (Penelope)	Coincidence and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy 83 supplement 62 (2008), 151-176 (special issue on Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics)	10%
Markosian (Ned)	The 3D/4D Controversy and Non-Present Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Papers 23 (1994), pp. 243-249	No
Markosian (Ned)	Two Arguments from Sider's Four Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXVII, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 665-673	No
McGrath (Matthew)	Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Zimmerman (Dean), Ed. - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 3	No
McInerney (Peter K.)	The Nature of a Person-Stage	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul., 1991), pp. 227-235	No
Meiland (Jack W.)	Temporal Parts and Spatio-Temporal Analogies	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan., 1966), pp. 64-70	No
Merricks (Trenton)	Endurance and Indiscernibility	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, vol. xci (1994) pp. 165–184	No
Merricks (Trenton)	On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 104, 1996, pp. 523-531	No
Merricks (Trenton)	Perdurance and Psychological Continuity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61, No. 1 (Jul., 2000), pp. 195-198	No
Miller (Kristie)	Blocking the path from vagueness to four dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Ratio 18 (3):317–331 (2005)	8%
Miller (Kristie)	Defining Our Terms	Paper - By Subtopic	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 3	No
Miller (Kristie)	Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time	Book - By Subtopic	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time	4%
Miller (Kristie)	Ought a Four-Dimensionalist To Believe in Temporal Parts?	Paper - By Subtopic	Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 619-646	8%
Miller (Kristie)	The Metaphysical Equivalence of Non-Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 6	No
Miller (Kristie)	The Metaphysical Equivalence of Three and Four Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 62, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 91-117	4%
Miller (Kristie)	The Metaphysical Equivalence of Unitary Three- and Four-dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 5	No
Miller (Kristie)	The Puzzles of Persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 2	No
Miller (Kristie)	Travelling in Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 7	No
Moyer (Mark)	Does Four-Dimensionalism Explain Coincidence?	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 2009 (vol. 87, issue 3, pp. 479-488)	11%
Moyer (Mark)	Why We Shouldn't Swallow Worm Slices: A Case Study in Semantic Accommodation	Paper - By Subtopic	Noûs, March 2008 (vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 109-138)	4%
Noonan (Harold)	A Flawed Argument for Perdurance – Reply to Braddon-Mitchell and Miller	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 65.2, April 2005, pp. 164-166(3)	No
Noonan (Harold)	A Note on Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 45, 1985, pp. 151-152.	No
Noonan (Harold)	Reply to Spinks on Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 47, 1987, pp. 187-189	No
Noonan (Harold)	The Case for Perdurance	Paper - By Subtopic	”Reality and Humean supervenience : essays on the philosophy of David Lewis", ed. Preyer & Siebelt - Chapter 6	No
Noonan (Harold)	The Four-Dimensional World	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Oct., 1976), pp. 32-39	No
Oaklander (L. Nathan)	Temporal Passage and Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Noûs, Vol. 26, No. 1, Mar., 1992, pp. 79-84	No
Oderberg (David)	Temporal Parts and the Possibility of Change	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2004): 686-708	No
Oderberg (David)	The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time	Book - By Subtopic	Oderberg (David) - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time	3%
Oderberg (David)	The Myth of Continuity: What's Wrong with Four-Dimensionalism?	Paper - By Subtopic	Oderberg - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time, 1993, Chapter 4	No
Oderberg (David)	The Ontology of Stages (Being the Orthodox/Humean Theory of Identity)	Paper - By Subtopic	Oderberg - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time, 1993, Chapter 3	No
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	16%
Olson (Eric)	Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous 40: 738-752, 2006	No
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology	Book - Cited	Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Alternatives	Paper - Cited	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 7, pp. 154-169	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Introduction	Paper - Cited	The Human Animal, September 1999, Introduction, pp. 3-7	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 5 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Parsons (Josh)	Must a Four-Dimensionalist Believe In Temporal Parts?	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2000, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p399, 20p	No
Parsons (Josh)	Review of Theodore Sider's 'Four-Dimensionalism'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, 2004, Vol. 54	No
Patton (Michael F.)	Full-Time Objections to Part-Time Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Papers 20, 1991, 173-181	No
Rea (Michael)	Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	M. J. Loux and D.W. Zimmerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (OUP, 2003)	3%
Rea (Michael)	Temporal Parts Unmotivated	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review 107 (1998), pp. 225–260	No
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader	45%
Rosenkrantz (Gary)	An Epistemic Argument for Enduring Human Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 209-224	7%
Sattig (Thomas)	Four-Dimensionalist Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Sattig - The Language and Reality of Time, Chapter 4	No
Sattig (Thomas)	Identity in 4D	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 140, No. 2 (Aug., 2008), pp. 179-195	7%
Sattig (Thomas)	Temporal Parts and Complex Predicates	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 102 (2002), pp. 329-336	11%
Sattig (Thomas)	Temporal Predication with Temporal Parts and Temporal Counterparts	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81, Number 3, September 01, 2003, pp. 355-368(14)	No
Sattig (Thomas)	The Language and Reality of Time	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sattig (Thomas) - The Language and Reality of Time	No
Sattig (Thomas)	Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Sattig - The Language and Reality of Time, 2006, Chapter 2	No
Schlesinger (George N.)	Spatial, Temporal and Cosmic Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Southern Journal of Philosophy 23.2 (Summer 1985), pp. 255-271	No
Seibt (Johanna)	Beyond Endurance and Perdurance: Recurrent Dynamics	Paper - By Subtopic	Persistence, ed. by C. Kanzian, Frankfurt et al.: de Gruyter, 133-163, 2008	4%
Sider (Ted)	All the World's a Stage	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	11%
Sider (Ted)	Arguments against Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Chapter 6	6%
Sider (Ted)	Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	3%
Sider (Ted)	Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time	Book - Cited	Sider (Ted) - Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time	12%
Sider (Ted)	Four-Dimensionalism: Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Introduction	Yes
Sider (Ted)	In Favour of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 1	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Chapter 4	2%
Sider (Ted)	In Favour of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 2: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Chapter 5	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Intrinsic Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Jul., 1996), pp. 1-27	4%
Sider (Ted)	Maximality and Intrinsic Properties	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2001): 357–364	11%
Sider (Ted)	Persistence and Parthood Seminar	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sider (Ted) - Persistence and Parthood Seminar	4%
Sider (Ted)	Persistence and Parthood Seminar	Paper - By Subtopic	Ted Sider's Website; Graduate Seminar, Fall 1998	33%
Sider (Ted)	Precis of Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXVII, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 642-647	17%
Sider (Ted)	Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. - Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, 2008	28%
Sider (Ted)	The Four-Dimensional Picture	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Chapter 1	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Three- and Four-Dimensionalism Stated	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Chapter 3	6%
Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds.	Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. - Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics	10%
Silverstein (Harry)	The Evil of Death	Paper - By Subtopic	Fischer - The Metaphysics of Death	5%
Simons (Peter)	Modes of Extension: Comments on Kit Fine’s ‘In Defence of Three-Dimensionalism’	Paper - By Subtopic	Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 62 , July 2008 , pp. 17 - 21	17%
Spinks (Graham)	Noonan on Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 46, 1986, pp. 215-216	No
Stone (Jim)	Why counterpart theory and four-dimensionalism are incompatible	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 65, October 2005, pp. 329-333(5)	No
Taylor (Richard)	Spatial and Temporal Analogies and the Concept of Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	17%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Perdurantism	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Four-Dimensional Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	22%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Van Inwagen (Peter) - Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics	17%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, July 2000, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p437, 23p	No
Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Metaphysics: The Big Questions	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean) - Metaphysics: The Big Questions	16%
Varzi (Achille)	Change, Temporal Parts, and the Argument from Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialectica 59:4 (2005), 485–498	No
Varzi (Achille)	Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81:2 (2003), 208-215	No
Weatherson (Brian)	Growing Individuals and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - By Subtopic	Personal Website	No
Weatherson (Brian)	Stages, Worms, Slices and Lumps	Paper - By Subtopic	Personal Website	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Can One “Take Tense Seriously” and Be a B-theorist?	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger & Kurtz - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 76: 265-288. 1998.	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism	Paper - By Subtopic	Van Inwagen & Zimmerman - Metaphysics: The Big Questions, 1998	No
Zimmerman (Dean), Ed.	Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 3	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Zimmerman (Dean), Ed. - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 3	10%

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