 For arguments that there is no real dispute here, see McCall and Lowe (2003), Lowe and McCall (2004), and Miller (2005); Reydon (2008) responds by drawing analogies with debate about biological species. Hirsch (2008) shows how more general scepticism about metaphysical disputes might play out here; McGrath (2007) draws out a number of connections with the burgeoning literature on metaontology; see also Benovsky (2011), Hansson Wahlberg (2014b), and Giberman (2018). The role of intuitions and ‘folk theory’ in debate about persistence is discussed by Rose (2015), Benovsky (2016), and Rose et al (2018); the role of experience as evidence is discussed by Prosser (2012), Traynor (2014), Prosser (2015) and Young (2018). Scholl (2007) connects the philosophy and psychology of object persistence. Hawthorne (2006, 2008) explores the distinction between three- and four-dimensionalism (the second of these articles is the more accessible). For discussion of how to define ‘wholly present’, see Wasserman (2004a), Crisp and Smith (2005), Olson (2006), and Donnelly (2016). Cotnoir’s (2015) review of Kleinschmidt (2014) highlights issues about persistence and location; Kleinschmidt’s introduction is very useful,and provides further references; see also Eagle (2016a). Donnelly (2011) advocates the location approach, articulated in Parsons (2007); for further references see the separate entry on  Location and Mereology,  especially section 6.3.2. Steward (2015) discusses continuants. The present encyclopedia article focuses on contemporary debate in analytic philosophy; work which makes connections to other times and other traditions includes Hirsch (1999a), Helm (2009), Gorham (2010), Fan (2018), McKeever (2018), Costa (2020) and Hayashi (2019).