Sameness and substance renewed /
A substantially revised and expanded edition of David Wiggins? classic work Sameness and Substance
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001
Cambridge, UK : New York : 2001 Cambridge, UK ; New York : 2001 Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : 2001 |
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| Summary: | A substantially revised and expanded edition of David Wiggins? classic work Sameness and Substance 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 |
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| Item Description: | Rev. ed. of: Sameness and substance. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980 Revised edition of: Sameness and substance. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 257 p. ; 24 cm xvi, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and indexes Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and indexes |
| ISBN: | 0521454115 (hardback) 0521454115 (hbk.) 0521454115 0521456193 (pbk.) 0521456193 9780521454117 (hardback) 9780521454117 9780521456197 (pbk.) 9780521456197 |