Sameness and Substance Renewed
2nd Edition
- Author: David Wiggins
- Date Published: September 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521456197
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In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he vindicates the absoluteness, necessity, determinateness and all or nothing character of identity against rival conceptions. He defends a form of essentialism that he calls individuative essentialism, and then a form of realism that he calls conceptualist realism. In a final chapter he advocates a human being-based conception of the identity and individuation of persons, arguing that any satisfactory account of personal memory must make reference to the life of the rememberer himself. This important book will appeal to a wide range of readers in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and analytic philosophy.
Read more- Revised and expanded edition of a classic work of analytical philosophy, published by Blackwell
- David Wiggins is one of the UK's leading philosophers
- Offers a distinctive orientation in some of the most important topics in metaphysics
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: September 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521456197
- length: 276 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.461kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The absoluteness of sameness
2. Outline of a theory of individuation
3. Sortal concepts: their characteristic activity or function or purpose
4. Essentialism and conceptualism
5. Conceptualism and realism
6. Vagueness, determinacy and identity: a conceptualist proposal
7. Personal identity.
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