Terence Parsons

Indeterminate Identity

Metaphysics and Semantics

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Produktbeschreibung

Terence Parsons presents a lively and original study of philosophical questions about identity, such as: Is a person identical with that person's body? Puzzles of this kind have not been solved; Parsons argues, controversially, that this is because there is genuine indeterminacy of identity in the world, rather than in the language used to formulate the questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198250449
• ISBN-10: 0198250444
• Artikelnr.: 26624525

Autorenporträt

Terence Parsons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
1. Indeterminacy
2. Identity
3. The Evans Argument, Properties, and DDiff
4. Non-Conditional Disputations
5. Conditional Disputations
6. Understanding Indeterminacy
7. Counting Objects
8. Denoting Objects
9. Alternatives to Indeterminate Identity
10. Sets and Properties with Indeterminate Identity
11. Higher Order Indeterminacy
Appendix
Bibliography