Persistence and Location in Relativistic Spacetime

Abstract

Abstract How is the debate between endurantism and perdurantism affected by the transition from pre‐relativistic spacetimes to relativistic ones? After suggesting that the endurance vs. perdurance distinction may run together a pair of cross‐cutting distinctions (mereological endurance vs. mereological perdurance and locational endurance vs. locational perdurance), I discuss two recent attempts to show that the transition in question does serious damage to endurantism (at least of the locational variety).