Author:
Lowe, E. J. (E. Jonathan)
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Descriptionxii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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 Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-222) and index.
