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Continuants - Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity (Hardcover)
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Continuants - Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity (Hardcover)
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This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where
his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects
treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion
of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space
by a continuant and its matter, the relation of person to human
organism, the metaphysical idea of a person, the status of
artefacts, the relation of the three-dimensional and
four-dimensional conceptions of reality, and the nomological
underpinning of sortal classification. From a much larger body of
work the author has selected, edited or annotated, and variously
shortened or extended eleven pieces. He has added an Introduction
and one completely new essay, on the philosophy of biology and the
role there of the idea of process. The collection begins with an
essay postdating his Sameness and Substance Renewed (2001), which
amends and upstages his earlier presentation of his sortalist
conception of identity. In subsequent essays and the introduction
Wiggins examines the contributions to these subjects made by
Heraclitus, Aristotle, Leibniz, Roderick Chisholm, Hilary Putnam,
Sydney Shoemaker, Michael Ayers, Saul Kripke, W. V. Quine, David
Lewis, Fei Xu, and others.
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