The Concept of Identity
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 1992
329 pages
978-0-19-536064-6 (ISBN)
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The book as a whole tackles a cluster of central metaphysical issues in a consistently clear and careful manner. Moreover, Hirsch is pleasantly undogmatic and endeavors to give fair treatment to those views he eventually rejects. His arguments for his own conclusions are frequently all-the-more forceful for that. The standard of argument is high and Hirsch has something interesting to say on every topic he discusses.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- PART ONE: THE PERSISTENCE OF OBJECTS
- Introduction to Part One
- 1 Continuity
- I: The Simple Continuity Analysis
- II: Qualitative Continuity
- III: Spatiotemporal Continuity
- IV: Is Continuity Necessary?
- V: Is Continuity Sufficient?
- 2 Sortals
- I: The Sortal Rule
- II: The Making of a Sortal
- III: Coming into Existence and Going out of Existence
- IV: Identity, Predication, and Constitution
- V: The Compositional Criterion
- 3 The Basic Idea of Persistence
- I: A Question about Sortal-Relativity
- II: The Basic Rule
- III: Limitations of the Basic Rule
- IV: Refining the Basic Rule
- V: Unity through Time and Space
- VI: Articulation
- 4 The Persistence of Matter
- I: A Puzzle about Matter
- II: An "Ultimate" Kind of Persistence
- III: Searching for Identity Criteria
- IV: Matter and Common Sense
- 5 The Metaphysics of Persistence
- I: Do We Need Persisting Objects?
- II: A Question about Spatiotemporal Continuity
- III: Identity Schemes
- IV: "Real" and "Fictitious" Persistence
- V: Can We Justify Our Identity Scheme?
- PART TWO: MINDS AND BODIES
- Introduction to Part Two
- 6 Foundations of Identity
- I: Metaphysical Priorities and Epistemological Priorities
- II: Body-Stages
- III: Temporal Parts
- IV: A Question of Priorities
- V: Spatiotemporal Continuity
- VI: Analyzing Bodily Identity
- VII: Epistemological Priorities
- 7 Matter, Causality, and Stereotypes of Identity
- I: Optimal Cases
- II: Compositional and Causal Continuity
- III: Stereotypes of Identity
- 8 A Sense of Unity
- I: Criteria of Unity
- II: Unity and Similarity
- III: Conventionalism
- IV: An "Empiricist" Explanation
- V: Focusing on Objects
- VI: Conclusion
- 9 Natural Kinds and Natural Units
- I: Kinds and Units
- II: Kinds and Similarity Classes
- III: Is the Class of Units a Kind?
- IV: Kinds and Individuation
- V: The Basis of Kinds and Units
- 10 Constraints on Self-Identity
- I: A Strange Identity Concept
- II: Metaphysical Constraints
- III: Pragmatic Constraints
- IV: Psychological Constraints
- V: The Sense of Self
- Index
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