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Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity
David Wiggins
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Description for Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity
Hardcover. For this volume David Wiggins has selected and revised eleven of his essays in an area of metaphysics where his work has been particularly influential, and he has added a substantial introduction and one new unpublished essay. Among the subjects treated are substance, identity, persistence, persons, sortals, and artefacts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space by a continuant and its matter, the relation of person to human organism, the metaphysical idea of a person, the status of artefacts, the relation of the three-dimensional and four-dimensional conceptions of reality, and the nomological underpinning of sortal classification. From a much larger body of work the author has selected, edited or annotated, and variously shortened or ... Read more
This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space by a continuant and its matter, the relation of person to human organism, the metaphysical idea of a person, the status of artefacts, the relation of the three-dimensional and four-dimensional conceptions of reality, and the nomological underpinning of sortal classification. From a much larger body of work the author has selected, edited or annotated, and variously shortened or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198716624
SKU
V9780198716624
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About David Wiggins
David Wiggins was born in London in 1933 and educated at St Paul's School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was chiefly devoted to Greek and Roman literature, and history and philosophy, both ancient and modern. He was a Civil Servant in the Colonial Office, 1957-9. A Proctor Visiting Fellow at Princeton in 1956-7, Wiggins went on to become a ... Read more
Reviews for Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity
Continuants is a welcome collection of some of [David Wiggins's] most important essays. . . . Wiggins is perhaps the contemporary philosopher I most often wish had been read properly by those with whom I am conversing and arguing in philosophy.
Helen Steward, Times Literary Supplement
After four and a half decades of thought [Wiggins] is still searching ... Read more
Helen Steward, Times Literary Supplement
After four and a half decades of thought [Wiggins] is still searching ... Read more