Locke on Essence and Identity /
This book is a study of John Locke's metaphysics of organisms and persons, with particular emphasis on his theory of identity through time and his conventionalism with respect to kinds and essences. Although these positions seem to be obviously incompatible-his persistence conditions for organi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2003.
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| Series: | Philosophical studies series ;
98. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- From the contents: Preface
- Introduction
- Lockes's Critique of Essentialism
- Locke's Theory of Identity
- Locke on the Persistence of Organisms and Persons
- Objections and Replies
- Relativistic Anti-Essentialism and a Four-Dimensional Lockean Ontology
- Index.