Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics - Couverture rigide

Parsons, Terence

 
9780198250449: Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198250444 ISBN 13 : 9780198250449
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Terence Parsons presents a lively and controversial study of philosophical questions about identity. Is a person identical with that person's body? If a ship has all its parts replaced, is the resulting ship identical with the original ship? If the discarded parts are reassembled, is the newly assembled ship identical with the original ship? Because these puzzles remain unsolved, some people believe that they are questions that have no answers, perhaps because the questions are improperly formulated; they believe that there is a problem with the language used to formulate them. Parsons explores a different possibility: that such puzzles lack answers because of the way the world is (or because of the way the world is not); there is genuine indeterminacy of identity in the world. He articulates such a view in detail and defends it from a host of criticisms that have been levelled against the very possibility of indeterminacy in identity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Terence Parsons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198250444
ISBN 13 
9780198250449
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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