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Sameness and substance renewed /
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 philosoph...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Revised edition of: Sameness and substance. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0511012896 9780511012891 0521454115 9780521454117 0521456193 9780521456197 0511037651 9780511037658 0511153627 9780511153624 9780511612756 0511612753 1280416793 9781280416798 |