Sameness and Substance Renewed / Edition 2

by David Wiggins

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521456197
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/06/2001
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	973,392
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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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