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Auteur(s) : Wiggins, David (1933-....)
Titre(s) : Continuants [Texte imprimé] : their activity, their being and their identity : twelve essays / David Wiggins
Publication : Oxford ; New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-239 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 221-233. Index
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.
Sujet(s) : Métaphysique
Permanence (philosophie)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198716621. - ISBN 9780198716624. - ISBN 0191026026 (erroné). - ISBN 9780191026027
(erroné). - ISBN 9780191785115 (erroné). - ISBN 0191785113 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45287856p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45287856
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