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By André Gallois

The philosophical challenge of id and the comparable challenge of swap return to the traditional Greek philosophers and interested later figures together with Leibniz, Locke, and Hume. Heraclitus argued that it is easy to now not swim within the similar river two times simply because new waters have been ever flowing in. whilst is a river no longer a similar river? If one gets rid of one plank at a time while is a boat now not a boat? what's the simple nature of id and persistence?



In this ebook, André Gallois introduces and assesses the philosophical puzzles posed by way of issues persisting via time. starting with crucial ancient history to the matter he explores the subsequent key issues and debates:





  • mereology and identification, together with arguments from 'Leibniz's Law'

  • the structure view of identity

  • the 'relative id' argument pertaining to identity

  • temporary identity

  • four-dimensionalism, counterpart and a number of counterpart theory

  • supervenience

  • the challenge of transitority intrinsics

  • the necessity of identity

  • Indeterminate identity

  • presentism

  • criteria of identity

  • conventionalism approximately identity.



Including bankruptcy summaries, annotated extra examining and a thesaurus, this ebook is vital studying for somebody looking a transparent and informative advent to and evaluate of the metaphysics of identity.

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