Indeterminate identity
Subtitle: metaphysics and semantics
By: Terence Parsons
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept)
Description: This is a study of philosophical questions about identity. If a ship has all its parts replaced, is the resulting ship identical with the original ship? It argues that these puzzles remain unsolved because of a genuine indeterminacy of identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217) and index