Sameness and Substance Renewed

A substantially revised and expanded edition of David Wiggins??? classic work Sameness and Substance.

List 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.

Summary

In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins examines the logic of identity, the ideas of substance and change, essence, predication and sortal predication, personhood, and personal memory.

Product details

• Authors: David Wiggins
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780521454117
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45411-7
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 564 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -