How Things Persist , by Katherine Hawley

Persistence and Time 1

Issues about life and death seem intertwined with issues about persistence and time: we live as long as we persist through time, and our deaths seem to mark the limits of our persistence. Metaphysicians have thought deeply about the nature of time, and about what it is for things in general to persist though time. In this chapter I outline some metaphysical views about time, and about persisten...

Success and Knowledge-How

Katherine Hawley, American Philosophical Quarterly, 40.1 (2003), 19-31.

Testimony and Knowing How

Much of what we learn from talking and listening does not qualify as testimonial knowledge: we can learn a great deal from other people without simply accepting what they say as true. In this article, I examine the ways in which we acquire skills or knowledge how from our interactions with other people, and I discuss whether there is a useful notion of testimonial knowledge how.

on Persistence

Next, persistence through time. I take the view that nothing endures identically through time. (Except universals, if such there be; their loci would coincide with relations of qualitative match, would indeed constitute these relations, so they would commit no violations of Humean Supervenience.) Persisting particulars consist of temporal parts, united by various kinds of continuity. To the ext...

Persistence and Determination 8