Occasions of identity : a study in the metaphysics of persistence, change, and sameness /
Occasions of Identity is an exploration of timeless philosophical issues about persistence, change, time, and sameness. Andre Gallois offers a critical survey of various rival views about the nature of identity and change, and puts forward his own original theory in the face of the prevailing orthod...
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New York :
Clarendon Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I.
- The Problem and Some Solutions.
- 1.
- Puzzle Cases.
- 2.
- Solutions to the Puzzle Cases
- pt. II.
- Occasional Identities.
- 3.
- Occasional Identities: A Preliminary Account.
- 4.
- Counting Amoebas.
- 5.
- Extending the Occasional Identity Thesis.
- 6.
- Defending the Contingency of Identity.
- 7.
- Perry and Myro on Occasional Identities
- pt. III.
- Alternative Accounts.
- 8.
- Identity Strict and Loose.
- 9.
- Indefinite Identities.
- 10.
- The Four-Dimensional World.