More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms

Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysicalthinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds ofBeing:A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic ofSortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the1989 edition of Kinds of Being Brings many of the original ideas and arguments put forth inKinds of Being thoroughly up to date in light of newdevelopmentsFeatures a thorough reworking and expansion of the earlierwork, rather than just a new editionReflects the author?s conversion to what he calls ?thefour–category ontology,? a metaphysical system that takes itsinspiration from AristotleProvides a unified discussion of individuation and identitythat should prove to be essential reading for philosophers workingin metaphysics. INDICE: Preface? vii.Acknowledgements xi.1 Introduction 1.The Varieties of ?Is? 3.Individuals, Kinds, and Realism 4.Semantics, Metaphysics, and Necessity 6.New Developments? 8.2 Sortal Terms and Criteria of Identity 12.3 Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation 29.4 Number, Unity, and Individuality? 42.5 The Absoluteness of Identity: A Defence 57.Appendix: Some Formal Principles and Arguments 72.6 Identity and Constitution 77.7 Parts and Wholes 92.8 Persons and Their Bodies 104.Matter and Organisms 104.Organisms and Persons 113.Is There a Criterion of Personal Identity? 125.9 Sortal Terms and Natural Laws 141.10 Plural Quantification and Sortal Reference? 164.11 Laws, Dispositions, and Sortal Logic 179.Appendix: An Axiomatic System of Sortal Logic 194.12 What Sorts of Things Are There?? 198.The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Sortal Terms 198.On the Identity of Sorts 212.Bibliography? 217.Index 223

• ISBN: 978-1-118-96386-9
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 06/02/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés