Identity and Discrimination
Timothy Williamson
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Paperback. Identity and Discrimination, originally published in 1990 and the first book by respected philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued and updated with the inclusion of significant new material. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 262.
Identity and Discrimination
Identity and Discrimination
This updated edition of Identity and Discrimination, first published in 1990 and the first book by well-known philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued with the inclusion of significant new material. This major work – influential in philosophy of perception and the theory of vagueness – continues in an original and rigorous way to highlight the necessity of discrimination and the thresholds which determine the approximate criteria of identity.
Williamson’s proposal for an original and rigorous theory links identity, a relation central to metaphysics, and indiscriminability, a relation central to epistemology. He provides a distinctive cognitive ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118432594
SKU
V9781118432594
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99-50
About Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He has previously taught at the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin, and as a visitor at MIT, Princeton, the Australian National University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Vagueness (1994), Knowledge and its Limits (2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007), ... Read more
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