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• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Kurtz (Roxanne) - Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?", 2006, Write-Up Note¹⁶, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read
• For a Page of Links¹⁷ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁸, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Kurtz (Roxanne) - Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?", 2006, Write-Up Note¹⁹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Lewis (David) - On the Plurality of Worlds (Selections)", 2006
    3. "Lewis (David) - The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", 1986
    4. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts", 2007, Write-Up Note²⁰, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Botterell (Anthony) - Temporal Parts and Temporary Intrinsics", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie) - There Is No Simpliciter Simpliciter", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    3. "Caplan (Ben) - Why So Tense About the Copula?", 2005
    4. "Craig (William Lane) - McTaggart's Paradox and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", 1998, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    5. "Della Rocca (Michael) - Primitive Persistence and the Impasse between Three Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism", 2011, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    6. "Forbes (Graeme) - Is There a Problem About Persistence?", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    7. "Gallois (Andre) - Identity Over Time", 2005-11, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    8. "Haslanger (Sally) - Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    9. "Johnston (Mark) - Is There a Problem About Persistence?", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    10. "Lewis (David) - Rearrangement of Particles: Reply to Lowe", 1988, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    11. "Lewis (David) - Tensing the Copula", 2006, Read = 17%
    12. "Lowe (E.J.) - Lewis on Perdurance Versus Endurance", 1987, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Oderberg (David) - Some Problems of Identity Over Time Considered", 1993
    14. "Oderberg (David) - Temporal Parts and the Possibility of Change", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Paganini (Elisa) - McTaggart, Lewis and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    16. "Sider (Ted) - In Favour of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 1", 2003, Read = 2%
    17. "Sider (Ted) - Persistence and Parthood Seminar", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 233%
    18. "Sider (Ted) - The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Skow (Bradford) - Are Shapes Intrinsic", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    20. "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Argument from Temporary Intrinsics", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Weatherson (Brian) - Growing Individuals and Temporary Intrinsics", Undated, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Zimmerman (Dean) - The A-Theory of Time, The B-Theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’", 2005, 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-holder²¹.

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Balashov (Yuri)	Time, Fission, Fusion: An Argument against the Block Universe with Endurance	Paper
Botterell (Anthony)	Temporal Parts and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Caplan (Ben)	Why So Tense About the Copula?	Paper
Della Rocca (Michael)	Primitive Persistence and the Impasse between Three Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism	Paper
Gallois (Andre)	Identity Over Time	Paper
Haslanger (Sally)	Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper	2, 3
Haslanger (Sally)	Persistence Through Time	Paper
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book	2, 3
Hawley (Katherine)	Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity	Paper
Hawley (Katherine)	David Lewis on Persistence	Paper	2
Hawthorne (John), Scala (Mark) & Wasserman (Ryan)	Recombination, Humean Supervenience and Causal Constraints: an Argument for Temporal Parts?	Paper
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper	2, 3, 4	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	2
Lewis (David)	The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Look (Brandon C.)	The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	Paper		Yes
Oderberg (David)	Some Problems of Identity Over Time Considered	Paper
Oderberg (David)	Temporal Parts and the Possibility of Change	Paper
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Temporal Parts	Paper		Yes
Sider (Ted)	In Favour of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 1	Paper	2
Sider (Ted)	Persistence and Parthood Seminar	Paper
Sider (Ted)	The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper
Sider (Ted) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Persistence Seminar	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Change	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Endurantism	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Logic of Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Properties	Paper		Yes
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Argument from Temporary Intrinsics	Paper
Weatherson (Brian)	Stages, Worms, Slices and Lumps	Paper
Zimmerman (Dean)	Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism	Paper	2
Zimmerman (Dean)	The A-Theory of Time, The B-Theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’	Paper

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Baxter (Donald L.M.)	Temporary and Contingent Instantiation as Partial Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	International Journal for Philosophical Studies, 26 (5):763-780 (2018)	17%
Botterell (Anthony)	Temporal Parts and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - Cited	Metaphysica 5.2 (2004), pp. 5-24	No
Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie)	There Is No Simpliciter Simpliciter	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Studies: Vol. 136, No. 2 (Nov., 2007), pp. 249-278	4%
Caplan (Ben)	Why So Tense About the Copula?	Paper - Cited	Mind, 114, Number 455, July 2005, pp. 703-708(6)	No
Craig (William Lane)	McTaggart's Paradox and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - Cited	Analysis, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr., 1998), pp. 122-127	33%
Della Rocca (Michael)	Primitive Persistence and the Impasse between Three Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism	Paper - Cited	Journal of Philosophy, CVIII, 11 (November 2011): pp. 591-616	17%
Forbes (Graeme)	Is There a Problem About Persistence?	Paper - Cited	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	11%
Gallois (Andre)	Identity Over Time	Paper - Cited	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2005-11	4%
Haslanger (Sally)	Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 49, 1989, pp. 119-125	33%
Haslanger (Sally)	Persistence Through Time	Paper - By Subtopic	M. J. Loux and D.W. Zimmerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (OUP, 2003)	6%
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	30%
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	30%
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	30%
Hawley (Katherine)	Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	St. Andrews' Website; forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 8, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman	33%
Hawley (Katherine)	David Lewis on Persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	Blackwell Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, 2015	44%
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%
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper - Cited	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Yes
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper - Referencing	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Yes
Lewis (David)	On the Plurality of Worlds (Selections)	Paper - Cited	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Yes
Lewis (David)	Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lewis (David) - Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	5%
Lewis (David)	Rearrangement of Particles: Reply to Lowe	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 48, 1988, pp. 65-72	11%
Lewis (David)	The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - Cited	Van Inwagen & Zimmerman - Metaphysics: The Big Questions, 1998	Yes
Look (Brandon C.)	The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Look (Brandon C.) - The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	4%
Look (Brandon C.)	The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	University of Kentucky Website, Spring 2008	Yes
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed.	Mind - 114/455 (July 2005)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	No
Oderberg (David)	Some Problems of Identity Over Time Considered	Paper - By Subtopic	Oderberg - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time, 1993, Chapter 6	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 (via Paper By Subtopic)	Oderberg (David) - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time	3%
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? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Contents + References	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology - Contents + References (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Temporal Parts	Paper - Cited	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 5 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Paganini (Elisa)	McTaggart, Lewis and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - By Subtopic	Penultimate draft 2015 - Final version published in in M. Szatkowski (ed.), God, Time, Infinity, Berlin/Boston, de Gruyter, pp. 163-170	33%
Rettler (Bradley)	McTaggart and indexing the copula	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 158, No. 3 (April 2012), pp. 431-434	33%
Sider (Ted)	The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	No
Sider (Ted) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Persistence Seminar	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sider (Ted) & Zimmerman (Dean) - Persistence Seminar	3%
Sider (Ted) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Persistence Seminar	Paper - By Subtopic	Ted Sider's Website; Graduate Seminar, Spring 2004	33%
Skow (Bradford)	Are Shapes Intrinsic	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, 13 (2007): 111-130	6%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
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	17%
Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Metaphysics: The Big Questions	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	17%
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Argument from Temporary Intrinsics	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81, Number 3, September 01, 2003, pp. 413-419(7)	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)	Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism	Paper - By Subtopic	Van Inwagen & Zimmerman - Metaphysics: The Big Questions, 1998	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	The A-Theory of Time, The B-Theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialectica, 59.4, December 2005, pp. 401-457(57)	No

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