Sameness and Substance Renewed
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- Author: David Wiggins
- Date Published: July 2005
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In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (Blackwell, 1980), David Wiggins examines the logic of identity, the ideas of substance and change, essence, predication and mortal predication, personhood, and personal memory. 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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"Sameness and Substance Renewed is...the mature reflections of an analytic philosopher who has been seriously investigating these issues for some thirty-five years. The book covers, in considerable detail, the entire conceptual geography of identity..." Philosophy in Review
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2005
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511037658
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
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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