Table of Contents -- Preface -- What is Endurance? STEVE BARKER, Nottingham / PHIL DOWE, Brisbane -- Enduring States ARKADIUSZ CHRUDZIMSKI, Szczecin and Salzburg -- Persistence and Ontological Pluralism PIERRE GRENON / BARRY SMITH -- The Diachronic Identity of Social Entities LUDGER JANSEN, Rostock -- How Are Identity Conditions Grounded? E. J. LOWE, Durham -- A Brief Ontology of Spatialand Temporal Localization UWE MEIXNER, Saarbrücken -- Ontology, 'Existence' and The Roleof Intuition* KRISTIE MILLER, Brisbane -- Sortal Dependence of Persistence EDMUND RUNGGALDIER, Innsbruck -- Beyond Endurance and Perdurance:Recurrent Dynamics JOHANNA SEIBT, -- The Thread of Persistence PETER SIMONS -- Persistence ERWIN TEGTMEIER -- List of Authors.