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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811696903321

Autore

Lowe E. J (E. Jonathan)

Titolo

More kinds of being : a further study of individuation, identity, and the logic of sortal terms / / E.J. Lowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

9786613204721

9781283204729

128320472X

9781444315042

1444315048

9781444315059

1444315056

Edizione

[[New, expanded ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

126

141.4

Soggetti

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Individuation (Philosophy)

Mind and body

Logic

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

More Kinds of Being; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; The Varieties of 'Is'; Individuals, Kinds, and Realism; Semantics, Metaphysics, and Necessity; New Developments; 2 Sortal Terms and Criteria of Identity; 3 Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation; 4 Number, Unity, and Individuality; 5 The Absoluteness of Identity: A Defence; Appendix: Some Formal Principles and Arguments; 6 Identity and Constitution; 7 Parts and Wholes; 8 Persons and Their Bodies; Matter and Organisms; Organisms and Persons; Is There a Criterion of Personal Identity?; 9 Sortal Terms and Natural Laws

10 Plural Quantification and Sortal Reference11 Laws, Dispositions, and Sortal Logic; Appendix: An Axiomatic System of Sortal Logic; 12 What



Sorts of Things Are There?; The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Sortal Terms; On the Identity of Sorts; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being:A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition of Kinds of Being Brings many of the original ideas and arguments put forth in Kinds of Being thoroughly up to date in light of new developmentsFeatures a thorough reworking and expansion of the earlier work, rather than just a new editionReflects the author's conversion to wh