Continuants
Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 November 2016
- ISBN 9780198716624
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 240x161x20 mm
- Weight 536 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
For this volume David Wiggins has selected and revised eleven of his essays in an area of metaphysics where his work has been particularly influential, and he has added a substantial introduction and one new unpublished essay. Among the subjects treated are substance, identity, persistence, persons, sortals, and artefacts.
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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.
Continuants is a welcome collection of some of [David Wiggins's] most important essays. . . . Wiggins is perhaps the contemporary philosopher I most often wish had been read properly by those with whom I am conversing and arguing in philosophy.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Identity, Individuation and Substance
On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time
Substance
The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value
Sameness, Substance and the Human Animal
Heraclitus Conceptions of Flux, Fire and Material Persistence
The Concept of the Subject Contains the Concept of the Predicate
Putnam s Doctrine of Natural Kind Words and Frege s Doctrines of Sense, Reference, and Extension: Can They Coherea?
The De Re Must , Individuative Essentialism and the Necessity of Identity
Mereological Essentialism: Asymmetrical Essential Dependence and the Nature of Continuants
Sortal Concepts: A Reply To Xu
Activity, Process, Continuant, Substance, Organism
