More kinds of being
Subtitle: a further study of individuation, identity, and the logic of sortal terms
By: E.J. Lowe.
Edition: [New, expanded ed.].
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405182560
Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept); Individuation (Philosophy); Mind and body; Logic; Language and languages -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The varieties of is; title: Individuals, kinds, and realism; title: Semantics, metaphysics, and necessity; title: New developments; title: Sortal terms and criteria of identity; title: Individuals, sorts, and instantiation; title: Number, unity, and individuality; title: The absoluteness of identity : a defence; title: Appendix: Some formal principles and arguments; title: Identity and constitution; title: Parts and wholes; title: Persons and their bodies; title: Matter and organisms; title: Organisms and persons; title: Is there a criterion of personal identity?; title: Sortal terms and natural laws; title: Plural quantification and sortal reference; title: Laws, dispositions, and sortal logic; title: Appendix: An axiomatic system of sortal logic; title: What sorts of things are there?; title: The syntax and semantics of complex sortal terms; title: On the identity of sorts.