Material objects persist through time and survive change. How do they manage to do so? What are the underlying facts of persistence? Do objects persist by being

Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persis

The nature of space and time is one of the most fascinating and fundamental philosophical issues which presently engages at the deepest level with physics. Duri

How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in time, or are they four-dimens

This book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime. Its fourteen chapters address two main questions: first