Things and Their Persistence

Selected Readings:

Cartwright, Richard. “Scattered Objects,” in Analysis and Metaphysics. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1975, pp. 153-71.

Chisholm, Roderick M. Person and Object. Open Court, 1976.

Forbers, Graeme. “Is There a Problem About Persistence?,” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol. 61 (1987):137-55.

Heil, Mark. The Ontology of Physical Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Hirsch, Eli. The Concept of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Loux, Michael J. Substance and Attribute. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1978.

Odeberg, David S. The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

Rea, Michael. “Naturalism and Material Objects,” in Naturalism: A Critical Analysis. Edited by J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 110-29.

Thomson, Judith Jarvis. “Parthood and Identity Across Time,” in Journal of Philosophy 80 (1983): 201-20.

Van Cleve, James. “Mereological Essentialism, Mereological Conjunctivism, and Identity Through Time,” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 11 (1986): 141-56.

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