
Identity and Discrimination - Reissued and Updated Edition
Timothy Williamson(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 5. February 2013
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200 pages
978-1-118-50359-1 (ISBN)
Description
Identity and Discrimination , originally published in 1990 and the first book by respected philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued and updated with the inclusion of significant new material. Williamson here proposes an original and rigorous theory linking identity, a relation central to metaphysics, and indiscriminability, a relation central to epistemology. Updated and reissued edition of Williamson's first publication, with the inclusion of significant new material Argues for an original cognitive account of the relation between identity and discrimination that has been influential in the philosophy of perception Pioneers the use of epistemic logic to solve puzzles about indiscriminability Develops the application of techniques from mathematical logic to understand issues about identity over time and across possible worlds
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-50359-1 (9781118503591)
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Timothy Williamson
Identity and Discrimination, Reissued and Updated Edition
Reissued and Updated Edition
E-Book
01/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
€27.99
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Timothy Williamson
Identity and Discrimination, Reissued and Updated Edition
E-Book
01/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
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Person
Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He is also the author of Vagueness , Knowledge and its Limits , The Philosophy of Philosophy , and Modal Logic as Metaphysics .