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| The Persistence of Objects | |
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| Introduction to Part One | |
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| Continuity | |
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| The Simple Continuity Analysis | |
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| Qualitative Continuity | |
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| Spatiotemporal Continuity | |
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| Is Continuity Necessary? | |
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| Is Continuity Sufficient? | |
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| Sortals | |
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| The Sortal Rule | |
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| The Making of a Sortal | |
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| Coming into Existence and Going out of Existence | |
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| Identity, Predication, and Constitution | |
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| The Compositional Criterion | |
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| The Basic Idea of Persistence | |
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| A Question about Sortal-Relativity | |
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| The Basic Rule | |
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| Limitations of the Basic Rule | |
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| Refining the Basic Rule | |
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| Unity through Time and Space | |
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| Articulation | |
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| The Persistence of Matter | |
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| A Puzzle about Matter | |
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| An "Ultimate" Kind of Persistence | |
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| Searching for Identity Criteria | |
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| Matter and Common Sense | |
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| The Metaphysics of Persistence | |
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| Do We Need Persisting Objects? | |
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| A Question about Spatiotemporal Continuity | |
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| Identity Schemes | |
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| "Real" and "Fictitious" Persistence | |
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| Can We Justify Our Identity Scheme? | |
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| Minds and Bodies | |
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| Introduction to Part Two | |
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| Foundations of Identity | |
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| Metaphysical Priorities and Epistemological Priorities | |
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| Body-Stages | |
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| Temporal Parts | |
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| A Question of Priorities | |
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| Spatiotemporal Continuity | |
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| Analyzing Bodily Identity | |
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| Epistemological Priorities | |
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| Matter, Causality, and Stereotypes of Identity | |
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| Optimal Cases | |
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| Compositional and Causal Continuity | |
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| Stereotypes of Identity | |
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| A Sense of Unity | |
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| Criteria of Unity | |
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| Unity and Similarity | |
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| Conventionalism | |
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| An "Empiricist" Explanation | |
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| Focusing on Objects | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Natural Kinds and Natural Units | |
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| Kinds and Units | |
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| Kinds and Similarity Classes | |
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| Is the Class of Units a Kind? | |
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| Kinds and Individuation | |
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| The Basis of Kinds and Units | |
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| Constraints on Self-Identity | |
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| A Strange Identity Concept | |
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| Metaphysical Constraints | |
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| Pragmatic Constraints | |
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| Psychological Constraints | |
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| The Sense of Self | |
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| Index | |