Description
Terence Parsons presents a lively and original study of philosophical questions about identity, such as: Is a person identical with that person's body? Puzzles of this kind have not been solved; Parsons argues, controversially, that this is because there is genuine indeterminacy of identity in the world, rather than in the language used to formulate the questions.
Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy, especially metaphysics and philosophy of language.
Contents/contributors
Introduction; 1. Indeterminacy; 2. Identity; 3. The Evans Argument, Properties, and DDiff; 4. Non-Conditional Disputations; 5. Conditional Disputations; 6. Understanding Indeterminacy; 7. Counting Objects; 8. Denoting Objects; 9. Alternatives to Indeterminate Identity; 10. Sets and Properties with Indeterminate Identity; 11. Higher Order Indeterminacy; Appendix; Bibliography