Jessica Wilson (PhD Cornell University, 2002) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (first arriving in 2005); she was Regular Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh (2013–2016), and William Wilhartz Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2001–2005). In 2014, Wilson was co-recipient of the Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, and in 2022, Wilson was named the University of Toronto Scarborough Research Excellence Faculty Scholar. Wilson has been awarded many grants, including three multi-year Social Science and Humanities Research Council grants, and many visiting fellowships, including to the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Milan, the Instituto de Investigadores Filosóficos (UNAM), the Arché Centre for Metaphysics, Language, Logic and Epistemology (St. Andrews), and the Centre for Consciousness (Australian National University). Wilson is a past President of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, and is currently an editor of Nous.
I offer a new metaphysical account of what it is for an object to persist through change. On my proposed view, when an object undergoes change, this involves the object’s essentially having a determinable property (e.g., shape), which property is differently determined at different times (e.g., first as straight, then as bent). I argue that this account has advantages over existing accounts of persistence through change (including endurantism and perdurantism), including that it makes sense of how objects can be 'wholly present' at each time they exist, without inviting contradiction.
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