More kinds of being : a further study of individuation, identity, and the logic of sortal terms / E.J. Lowe.

Author/creator Lowe, E. J.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoChichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Descriptionxii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- The varieties of is -- Individuals, kinds, and realism -- Semantics, metaphysics, and necessity -- New developments -- Sortal terms and criteria of identity -- Individuals, sorts, and instantiation -- Number, unity, and individuality -- The absoluteness of identity : a defence -- Appendix: Some formal principles and arguments -- Identity and constitution -- Parts and wholes -- Persons and their bodies -- Matter and organisms -- Organisms and persons -- Is there a criterion of personal identity? -- Sortal terms and natural laws -- Plural quantification and sortal reference -- Laws, dispositions, and sortal logic -- Appendix: An axiomatic system of sortal logic -- What sorts of things are there? -- The syntax and semantics of complex sortal terms -- On the identity of sorts.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-222) and index.
LCCN 2009020889
ISBN9781405182560 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1405182563 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BC199.I4 L69 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold