Sameness and Substance Renewed
Sameness and Substance Renewed
2nd Edition
David Wiggins
September 2001
Available
Hardback
9780521454117
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.
- 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
Reviews & endorsements
"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
Product details
September 2001Hardback
9780521454117
276 pages
236 × 160 × 23 mm
0.564kg
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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.
