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  title info:
    title: Individuals, Essence and Identity
    sub title: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics
  name:
    name part: Bottani, Andrea.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Carrara, Massimiliano.
  name:
    name part: Giaretta, Pierdaniele.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (516 pages)
  abstract: The book's aim is to give a working representation of what metaphysics is today. The historical contributions reveal the roots of metaphysical themes and how today's methods are linked to their Aristotelian and Leibnizian past. The volume also touches on the relationships between ontological and linguistic analysis, the questions of realism and ontological commitment, the nature of abstract objects, the existential meaning of particular quantification, the primitiveness of identity, the question of epistemic versus ontological vagueness, the necessity of origin, the nature of natural necessity, the possibility of intermittent existence, the notion of a temporal part and its place in an account of persistence, the question of identity and change across time and possible worlds, and many more. Readership: A toolbox for any researcher in metaphysics and an essential source for any PhD student with ontological interests.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part One: Ontology and Analysis. The Question of Realism. Words and Objects -- Part Two: Essence and Existence. Being and Essence in Contemporary Interpretations of Aristotle. Some Comments on Prof. Enrico Berti's Paper "Being and Essence in Contemporary Interpretations of Aristotle". Existence, Identity, and Aristotelian Tradition. Orenstein on Existence and Identity. Abstract Objects: A Case Study. Kinds, Essence, and Natural Necessity. Kinds of Necessity: a Commentary on E.J. Lowe's Paper -- Part Three: Identity. Aristotle's Notion of Identity. Sameness in Aristole's Topics. Identity and Supervenience. Comments on Wiggings's Paper "Identity and Supervenience". Vagueness, Identity, and Leibniz's Law. Williamson on Vagueness, Identity, and Leibniz's Law. Origins and Identities. Forbes on Origins and Identities -- Part Four: Time and Persistence. Leibniz, Composite Substances and the Persistence of Organic Things. On Naturalising Leibniz (a Reply to Anthony Savile). Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time. Van Inwagen on Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time. Change and Change-Ersatz. Starting over -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
  note: edited by Andrea Bottani, Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: BD95-131
  classification: 110
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Topoi library ; 4
  identifier: 9789401718660 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401718660 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048159888
  identifier: 9048159881
  identifier: 9401718660
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130131
    record change date: 20260422201800.0
    record identifier: in00003572799
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng