More kinds of being : a further study of individuation, identity, and the logic of sortal terms / / E.J. Lowe
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| Autore: |
Lowe E. J (E. Jonathan)
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| Titolo: |
More kinds of being : a further study of individuation, identity, and the logic of sortal terms / / E.J. Lowe
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Edizione: | [New, expanded ed.]. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 126 |
| 141.4 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Identity (Philosophical concept) |
| Individuation (Philosophy) | |
| Mind and body | |
| Logic | |
| Language and languages - Philosophy | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | More kinds of being |
| ISBN: | 9786613204721 |
| 9781283204729 | |
| 128320472X | |
| 9781444315042 | |
| 1444315048 | |
| 9781444315059 | |
| 1444315056 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811696903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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