Identity
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Bibliographic Information
Identity
（The international research library of philosophy, 2 . Metaphysics and epistemology）
Dartmouth, c1993
Available at 56 libraries
Note
Collected essays from English-language journals
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This philosophical work on identity encompasses material on the counterparts of persons and their bodies, contingent identity, vague objects, properties and causality, Chisholm's paradox, and meteorological essentialism and conjunctivism.
Table of Contents
- Counterparts of persons and their boodies, D.J. Lewis
- parts as essential to their whole, P.M. Chisholm
- contingent identity, H. Gibbard
- worlds away, W.Y.D. Quine
- vague objects, G. Evans
- identity, properties and causality, S. Shoemaker
- identity and vagueness, P. Thomason
- reidentifying matter, C. Robinson
- parthood and identity across time, J.J. Thomson
- spatial and temporal parts, D. Butterfield
- two solutions to Chisholm's paradox, G. Forbes
- is a thing just the sum of it's parts, G. Hughes
- can amoebae divide without multiplying, D. Robinson
- counterparts and identity, R. Stalnaker
- mereological essentialism, mereological conjunctivism, J. van Cleve
- criteria of identity and the axiom of choice
- is there a problem about persistence
- Lewis on perdurance versus endurance
- pearrangement of particles - reply to Lowe
- vague identity - Evans misunderstood
- how to reason about vague objects
- matter, motion and humean supervenience
- what is a criterion of identity?
- four dimensional objects
- vague identity and vague objects
- indeterminate identity, contingent identity and abelardian predicates.
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