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Informationen zum Autor E. J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His publications include Subjects of Experience (Cambridge, 1996), The Possibility of Metaphysics (1998), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge, 2000), The Four-Category Ontology (2006), Personal Agency (2008) and More Kinds of Being (2009). He is a General Editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Klappentext Lowe investigates the forms of thought, showing how this study is crucial to understanding the powers of the intellect. Zusammenfassung Forms of thought are involved whenever we name! describe! or identify things! and distinguish between what is! might! or must be the case; studying these structures is the main task of philosophical logic. The book will be of interest to students of epistemology and metaphysics! and philosophy of mind and language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Reference and Predication: 2. Individuation, reference, and sortal terms; 3. Dispositional versus occurrent predication; 4. Predication and categories; Part II. Identity: 5. What is a criterion of identity?; 6. Identity conditions and their grounds; Part III. Modality: 7. Identity, vagueness, and modality; 8. Necessity, essence, and possible worlds; Part IV. Conditionality: 9. The truth about counterfactuals; 10. Conditionals and conditional probability; Bibliography; Index.
