chapter 1. Sameness and Difference Page 9 section 1. How Things Persist Page 9 section 2. Change and Perdurance Page 11 section 3. Change and Endurance Page 14 section 4. Properties as Relations to Times Page 16 section 5. Adverbalism: Instantiation as Relative to Times Page 21 section 6. Change, Parthood, and Being 'Wholly Present' Page 24 section 7. Time and Persistence Page 30 section 8. Conclusions, and Personal Persistence Page 34 chapter 2. Parts and Stages Page 37 section 1. Wholes and Parts, Properties and Predicates Page 37 section 2. Stage Theory Page 41 section 3. Developing Stage Theory Page 46 section 4. How Long are Stages? Page 48 section 5. Time and Change Page 50 section 6. Lingering and Historical Predicates Page 53 section 7. Reference and Reidentification Page 57 section 8. Sameness, Identity, and Counting Page 62 section 9. Personal Persistence Page 64 chapter 3. Sticking Stages Together Page 68 section 1. Non-supervenient Relations Page 72 section 2. The Homogenous Disc Argument: Exposition Page 73 section 3. The No-difference Objection Page 74 section 4. Holographic Difference Objections Page 76 section 5. Non-supervenient Relations, and Alternatives Page 85 section 6. Natural Objects Page 90 section 7. Change Page 94 section 8. Reference Page 96 section 9. Personal Persistence Page 98 chapter 4. Vagueness Page 100 section 1. Sources of Vagueness Page 101 section 2. Against Vague Objects Page 105 section 3. Vague Worlds Page 109 section 4. Might the World be Vague? Page 111 section 5. Is the World Vague? Page 113 section 6. Ontic Indeterminancy and Endurance Theory Page 116 section 7. The Evans-Salmon Argument Page 117 section 8. Leibniz's Law and its Contrapositive Page 120 section 9. Transference Page 123 section 10. Is Alpha Identical to Omega? Page 125 section 11. Perdurance, Stages, and Ontic Indeterminancy Page 128 section 12. Semantic Indeterminancy and Persistence Page 131 section 13. Epistemic Accounts of Vagueness Page 135 section 14. Vagueness, Persistence, and People Page 137 chapter 5. Sheer Coincidence? Page 140 section 1. Constitution Theories Page 145 section 2. Perdurance Theories Page 149 section 3. Dominant Sortals Page 151 section 4. Temporary Identities Page 154 section 5. Stage Theory Page 156 section 6. Scepticism about Objects Page 158 section 7. A Complication: Two of a Kind? Page 159 section 8. How to Decide? Page 161 section 9. The Problems of the Many Page 164 section 10. Personal Persistence Page 170 chapter 6. Modality Page 176 section 1. Constitution Theories Page 176 section 2. Perdurance Theories Page 179 section 3. Dominant Sortals Page 180 section 4. Temporary Identities and Contingent Identities Page 181 section 5. Scepticism about Objects Page 182 section 6. Stage Theory Page 183 section 7. Modal Features of Stages Page 184 section 8. Vagueness Again Page 189 section 9. Sums of Stages, and Modal Inductility Page 189 section 10. Perdurance Theory and Modal Inductility Page 191 section 11. Stage Theory and Sums Page 195 section 12. Individual Predicates and Possible Worlds Page 196 section 13. Conclusion Page 200