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Individuals, Essence and Identity

Themes of Analytic Metaphysics

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Editors:
  1. Andrea Bottani

    1. Università di Bergamo, Italy

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  2. Massimiliano Carrara

    1. Università di Padova, Italy

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  3. Pierdaniele Giaretta

    1. Università di Padova, Italy

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Part of the book series: Topoi Library (TOPI, volume 4)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Ontology and Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Question of Realism

      • Kit Fine
      Pages 3-48

    3. Words and Objects

      • Achille C. Varzi
      Pages 49-75

  4. Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. On the Notion of Identity in Aristotle

      • Mario Mignucci
      Pages 217-238

    3. Sameness in Aristotle’s Topics

      • Paolo Crivelli
      Pages 239-245

    4. Identity and Supervenience

      • David Wiggins
      Pages 247-265

    5. Comments on Wiggins’s “Identity and Supervenience”

      • Edmund Runggaldier
      Pages 267-271

    6. Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz’s Law

      • Timothy Williamson
      Pages 273-303

    7. Williamson on Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz’s Law

      • Dorothy Edgington
      Pages 305-318

    8. Origins and Identities

      • Graeme Forbes
      Pages 319-340
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Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics? The aim of this introduction is to give a provisional answer to this question, and then to explain the subtitle of the volume. It is easy to observe that when we do meta­ physics we engage in a linguistic activity, mainly consisting of uttering declarative sentences that are not very clear to most people. That is true, but, of course, it is not very informative. What do we speak of when we do metaphysics? A traditional answer could be: we speak of what things really are, so suggesting that things can appear in a way that is different from the way they really are. So understood, meta­ physics is about the sense, or the senses, of "real being". A question that immediately arises is whether the sense of being is unique or is different for different types of things. Another question is whether it is possible that something could appear to be, but really not be. Modem analytic metaphysicians usually answer that the sense of being is unique, while acknowledging that there are different kinds of things, and that to say that something could appear to be but really not be is a plain contradiction, unless what is understood is that it could appear to us that there is something having such and such features, but viii Individuals, Essence, and Identity really there is no such a thing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Università di Bergamo, Italy

    Andrea Bottani

  • Università di Padova, Italy

    Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Individuals, Essence and Identity

  • Book Subtitle: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics

  • Editors: Andrea Bottani, Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta

  • Series Title: Topoi Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1866-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0548-0Published: 31 March 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5988-8Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1866-0Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1389-689X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 501

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy of Language, Logic, Modern Philosophy

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