In the center of stability is how things persist amidst varying state of changes from the casual process of daily routine and endurance of an object specifically explained in the example of a book still intact despite being spilled by coffee. This chapter considers the philosopher David Lewis's attack on properties as relations to times in his book ‘On the Plurality of Worlds’. Temporary processing of features is considered a phase on the ideal and it only shows that people change just as materials due over the course of time by refecting on an individual's differing state of mind in different moments. The immateriality of people accounts for the inescapable changes and theories of persistence may have something to do with the decision to change.
Hawley, Katherine. Sameness and Difference
2001, In Hawley, K., How Things Persist. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Comment: The first part of this chapter provides some background on the distinction between endurantism and perdurantism, and as such could be used an introductory class on the metaphysics of identity and change. However, the rest of the chapter develops a more technical argument against Lewis' objections to the view that properties are relations to times, and that instead properties such as shape are obviously intrinsic. As such, this text could be read alongside excerpts from Lewis' On the Plurality of Worlds. It can also be read for its defence of adverbialism, in a more advanced seminar.