Wiggins, johnston, and thomson have distinguished the is of identity from the is of composition. Sameness and substance renewed david wiggins, wykeham. Heraclitus conceptions of flux, fire, and material. I agree with a great deal in helen stewards paper 2015. 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. Substance revised, expounds the aristotelian doctrines from which sortalism derives.
Classical readings in theoretical philosophy david wiggins, sameness and substance renewed. This was wigginss first attack on the question that he says. Download fulltext pdf perry, personal identity and the characteristic way article pdf available in metaphilosophy 151. Sameness and substance, lecz nie sa to te same ksiazki. As background reading he suggests the following further selections from. Classical readings in theoretical philosophy david wiggins, sameness and substance renewed thomas muller classical readings tf. 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. Sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins pp.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Personal identity and brain transplants royal institute of. Sameness and substance hardcover july 1, 1980 by david wiggins author visit amazons david wiggins page. The degree of purity of a substance does not affect the sameness. I am especially sympathetic to her suggestion that we gain metaphysical illumination by considering various ways in which we arrive at ideas of certain kinds of individuals by abstraction from those of more basic kinds. David wiggins, sameness and substance renewed philpapers. 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. Review of wiggins, sameness and substance renewed stephen yablo.
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. Sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins, cambridge. 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. General interest sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins. 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. According to ted sider these include the thesis of quantifier variance, against which he has defended ontological realism. Metaphysics and biology a critique of david wiggins account. Sameness and substance renewed david wiggins by kathie. David wiggins, sameness and substance renewed d cambridge university press, 2001. For a good general critical discussion of individuals see williams 1961. Black athletes and race relations in twentieth century america. Pdf engel cr wiggins sameness and substance 1980 pascal.
Identity, individuation and substance wiggins 2012. Jackson, from metaphysics to ethics, in philosophical books 41 2000. Include in section 5 of reference to the data submission manuals part 18 how to. Pdf the finegrained metaphysics of artifactual and. 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. David wiggins, freges problem of the morning star and the evening star in m.
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%. Aficionados will know that sameness and substance grew out of an even earlier book, identity and spatiotemporal continuity 1967. 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. Recently, sider has considered the possibility of rejecting his arguments against the vagueness of the. David wiggins, sameness and substance renewed cambridge. Substance sameness in practice can essentially be understood in terms of administrative sameness and hazard sameness. The major contributor to modern discussion of this difficult topic is david wiggins. Sameness and substance renewed information philosopher.
Ackrill after completing his national service, he joined the civil service and was appointed assistant principal in the colonial office. Philosophy and phenomenological research was founded in 1940 by marvin farber, who edited it for forty years. The second chapter is wiggins s 1968 essay on being in the same place at the. Review of wiggins, sameness and substance renewed mit. Panayot butchvarov department of philosophy college of. Precis of sameness and substance renewed wiggins 2005. Cambridge university press 0521454115 sameness and substance renewed david wiggins frontmatter more information. These include gareth evans the varieties of reference, john campbells past, space and self, and david wiggins, sameness and substance. Continuity,was published in and ran to seventyeight pages of text. Sameness and substance or from the book that sameness and substance. Wjgins claims that luman individuators of threedimensional continuants a e committed to an ontology of substance s.
In his sameness and substance oxford, 1980, he proposed conceptualist realism, a position according to which our conceptual framework maps reality. David wiggins and peter geach debated back and forth about the idea of relative identity for many years after geach suggested it in 1962. Sameness and substance paperback january 1, 1980 by david wiggins author visit amazons david wiggins page. Guidance for identification and naming of substances under reach and clp version 2.
In the past few years, deflationary positions in the debate on the nature of composite material objects have become prominent. A monoconstituent substance is a substance where the main constituent is present at or above 80%. The paper needs to have i a cover sheet indicating the title, your name, student number and email. Personal identity, in metaphysics, the problem of the nature of the identity of persons and their persistence through time. Substance sameness to be addressed at the workshop the concept of sameness is multiple as it cannot be addressed without defining precisely the context. Ruth barcan marcus pubilshed her original proof of the necessity of identity in 1947 and repeated her argument at a 1961 boston university colloquium.
Since 1980 it has been at brown, where it has been edited by roderick chisholm and then, since 1986, by ernest sosa. 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. The agent may not be the true determinant of his action. That which is to be explained by heraclitean logos is the maintenance of the worldorder, that of earth and heaven alike. Identity, individuation and substance wiley online library. Paul gochet, outline of a nominalist theory of propositions, in nous xvii 1983, pp. He attended st pauls school before reading philosophy at brasenose college, oxford where he obtained a first class degree. Sameness and substance renewed by david wiggins, 2001.
In his article, the doctrine of the trinity and the logic of relative identity religious studies 25 pp. 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. Review of david wiggins, published in revue philosophique 1982.
In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work sameness and substance 1980, david wiggins retrieves. 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. 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. Iiexclusive individuals aristotelian society supplementary.
The first is to argue, primarily against geach, that identity is absolute not. 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. Peter van inwagen, material beings cornell university press, 1990. H see john mcdowell, on the sense and reference of a proper name,mind, 86 1977 pp. This was wiggins s first attack on the question that he says. It is plausible to assume that participants decisions. 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. If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file. Personal identity and brain transplants royal institute. Guidance for identification and naming of substances under.
Wiggins on coincidence and sortals david wiggins, sameness and substance renewed, chapters 2 and 3 kit fine, a counterexample to lockes thesis sider. 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. Wiggins himself laments the fact that his texts can be found obscure. It is expressly denied insameness and substance that language can be protected by such an exclusion zone. Classical readings in theoretical philosophy david wiggins. Wilfrid sellars, naturalism and ontology, in international studies in philosophy xiii 1981, pp. Putnams doctrine of natural kind words and freges doctrines. The aristotelian notion of a first substance like fido the dog, an enduring thing with perhaps. Book ii, chapter 27, of the essay, of identity and. 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. Peter frederick strawson stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual. Sameness and substance renewed sameness and substance renewed lowe, e. The most influential part of wiggins s work has been in metaphysics, where he has developed a fundamentally aristotelian conception of substance, enriched.
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