Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics

ISBN-13: 9780198250449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str.

Terence Parsons

Opis

Terence Parsons presents a lively and controversial study of philosophical questions about identity. Because many puzzles about identity remain unsolved, some people believe that they are questions that have no answers and 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). He claims that there is genuine indeterminacy of identity in the world. He articulates such a view in detail and defends it from a host of criticisms.

Recenzje

This monograph provides by far the most detailed defence of worldly indeterminacy of identity available in the literature. The discussion ranges over a broad array of issues, adopting inventive as well as rigorous techniques and strategies

O autorze

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