Peter frederick strawson stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file. Substance revised, expounds the aristotelian doctrines from which sortalism derives. Wiggins on coincidence and sortals david wiggins, sameness and substance renewed, chapters 2 and 3 kit fine, a counterexample to lockes thesis sider. Metaphysics and biology a critique of david wiggins account. Both of these accounts of personal identitythe bodily theory and the immaterial substance theorywere rejected by the 17thcentury english philosopher john locke in his essay concerning human understanding 1689, which contained the first extended treatment of the topic in western philosophy.
Wjgins claims that luman individuators of threedimensional continuants a e committed to an ontology of substance s. Brodys identity and essence, journal of philosophy 79, 1982, pp. David wiggins, freges problem of the morning star and the evening star in m. Black athletes and race relations in twentieth century america. In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work sameness and substance blackwell, 1980, david wiggins examines the logic of identity, the ideas of substance and change, essence, predication and mortal predication, personhood, and personal memory. A monoconstituent substance is a substance where the main constituent is present at or above 80%. One makes a judgment of personal identity whenever one says that a person existing at one time is the same as a person existing at another time. For a good general critical discussion of individuals see williams 1961.
Sameness and substance renewed sameness and substance renewed lowe, e. The aristotelian notion of a first substance like fido the dog, an enduring thing with perhaps. David wiggins, sameness and substance renewed philpapers. Since 1980 it has been at brown, where it has been edited by roderick chisholm and then, since 1986, by ernest sosa. Sameness and substance renewed is an immensely rich book, weaving together themes from leibniz and aristotle with the recent work of putnam, kripke, and tim williamson, and presenting a deeply original result.
A multiconstituent substance is a substance where at least two constituents are present in amounts between 10% and 80%, and none of them above 80%. Positing only one substance where the psychological approach to personal identity must admit two, olsons biological approach to personal identity avoids the problems that spatially coincident entities present, such as there being more than one thinking being in the readers chair. Ruth barcan marcus pubilshed her original proof of the necessity of identity in 1947 and repeated her argument at a 1961 boston university colloquium. Classical readings in theoretical philosophy david wiggins, sameness and substance renewed. Review of david wiggins, published in revue philosophique 1982. Philosophy and phenomenological research was founded in 1940 by marvin farber, who edited it for forty years. Sameness and substance paperback january 1, 1980 by david wiggins author visit amazons david wiggins page. Guidance for identification and naming of substances under. According to ted sider these include the thesis of quantifier variance, against which he has defended ontological realism. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual.
Putnams doctrine of natural kind words and freges doctrines. Sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins, 2001. Book ii, chapter 27, of the essay, of identity and. Wiggins, johnston, and thomson have distinguished the is of identity from the is of composition. Personal identity, in metaphysics, the problem of the nature of the identity of persons and their persistence through time. Aficionados will know that sameness and substance grew out of an even earlier book, identity and spatiotemporal continuity 1967.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Sameness and substance or from the book that sameness and substance. David wiggins, sameness and substance renewed d cambridge university press, 2001. It is true, they would urge, that the statue is the clay, but that is because this means simply that the statue is composed of the clay. Guidance for identification and naming of substances under reach and clp version 2. Synopsis in this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work sameness and substance 1980, david wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentiethcentury logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change. May 21, 20 sameness and substance renewed david wiggins. Ten years further on, noting the virtual disappearance of the sortalist view of identity from present day discussions, i wonder sometimes whether the third of these efforts was found to be. Substance sameness in practice can essentially be understood in terms of administrative sameness and hazard sameness. Paul gochet, outline of a nominalist theory of propositions, in nous xvii 1983, pp. Ackrill after completing his national service, he joined the civil service and was appointed assistant principal in the colonial office.
It is expressly denied insameness and substance that language can be protected by such an exclusion zone. These include gareth evans the varieties of reference, john campbells past, space and self, and david wiggins, sameness and substance. Peter van inwagen, material beings cornell university press, 1990. Sameness and substance renewed in this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic worksameness and substance,david wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentiethcentury logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity,of substance and of persis. Review of wiggins, sameness and substance renewed mit. Jackson, from metaphysics to ethics, in philosophical books 41 2000. This chapter seeks to reconstruct heraclitus cosmic theory as a whole and to study the part played in its assemblage by the argument to the best explanation and its authors quasimethodological insistence upon the unity. This was wiggins s first attack on the question that he says. It is plausible to assume that participants decisions.
He attended st pauls school before reading philosophy at brasenose college, oxford where he obtained a first class degree. Sameness and substance renewed information philosopher. The second chapter is wiggins s 1968 essay on being in the same place at the. Identity, individuation and substance wiggins 2012. Recently, sider has considered the possibility of rejecting his arguments against the vagueness of the. Sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins, cambridge. Wiggins himself laments the fact that his texts can be found obscure. Identity, individuation and substance wiley online library. Continuity,was published in and ran to seventyeight pages of text. Wilfrid sellars, naturalism and ontology, in international studies in philosophy xiii 1981, pp. In his sameness and substance oxford, 1980, he proposed conceptualist realism, a position according to which our conceptual framework maps reality. Personal identity and brain transplants royal institute. Substance sameness to be addressed at the workshop the concept of sameness is multiple as it cannot be addressed without defining precisely the context.
H see john mcdowell, on the sense and reference of a proper name,mind, 86 1977 pp. Sameness and substance renewed david wiggins by kathie. Download fulltext pdf perry, personal identity and the characteristic way article pdf available in metaphilosophy 151. Cambridge university press 0521454115 sameness and substance renewed david wiggins frontmatter more information. The degree of purity of a substance does not affect the sameness. Personal identity and brain transplants royal institute of. Review of wiggins, sameness and substance renewed stephen. Panayot butchvarov department of philosophy college of. Classical readings in theoretical philosophy david wiggins, sameness and substance renewed thomas muller classical readings tf. Precis of sameness and substance renewed wiggins 2005.
Pdf engel cr wiggins sameness and substance 1980 pascal. Review of wiggins, sameness and substance renewed stephen yablo. Sameness and substance renewed hereafter, 2001 is, in effect, a second edition of wiggins s 1980 book sameness and substance hereafter, 1980, which in turn expanded and corrected some ideas in his 1967 identity and spatiotemporal continuity hereafter, 1967. The major contributor to modern discussion of this difficult topic is david wiggins. Sameness and substance, lecz nie sa to te same ksiazki.
In the past few years, deflationary positions in the debate on the nature of composite material objects have become prominent. Sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins pp. The paper needs to have i a cover sheet indicating the title, your name, student number and email. In his article, the doctrine of the trinity and the logic of relative identity religious studies 25 pp. I agree with a great deal in helen stewards paper 2015. This was wigginss first attack on the question that he says. David wiggins, sameness and substance renewed cambridge. In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work sameness and substance 1980, david wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentiethcentury logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. Sameness and substance hardcover july 1, 1980 by david wiggins author visit amazons david wiggins page. Heraclitus conceptions of flux, fire, and material. In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work sameness and substance 1980, david wiggins retrieves. The agent may not be the true determinant of his action.
The most influential part of wiggins s work has been in metaphysics, where he has developed a fundamentally aristotelian conception of substance, enriched. Classical readings in theoretical philosophy david wiggins. David wiggins and peter geach debated back and forth about the idea of relative identity for many years after geach suggested it in 1962. That which is to be explained by heraclitean logos is the maintenance of the worldorder, that of earth and heaven alike. Include in section 5 of reference to the data submission manuals part 18 how to. Na przestrzeni lat, zaczynajac od swego pierwszego dziela, identity and spatiotemporal continuity 1967, poprzez sameness and substance 1980, a konczac na sameness and substance renewed 2001, david wiggins dal sie poznac jako goracy przeciwnik stwierdzen typu 1. Chapter 1 is an essay published in 2012, identity, individuation and substance, which is intended as a continuation of sameness and substance renewed, the third book in the series beginning with, or the second revision of, identity and spatiotemporal continuity. Iiexclusive individuals aristotelian society supplementary. In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work sameness and substance blackwell, 1980, david wiggins examines the logic of identity, the ideas of substance and change, essence, predication and sortal predication, personhood, and personal memory. It defends them from humes attacks upon the idea of substance, not without the help of leibniz, against multiple misunderstandings and misconceptions of the category of substance conceived as a thing with a principle of activity that defines its nature. Pdf the finegrained metaphysics of artifactual and. As background reading he suggests the following further selections from. The first is to argue, primarily against geach, that identity is absolute not.
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