{"product_id":"continuants-david-wiggins-9780198716624","title":"Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity","description":"This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space by a continuant and its\u003cbr\u003ematter, the relation of person to human organism, the metaphysical idea of a person, the status of artefacts, the relation of the three-dimensional and four-dimensional conceptions of reality, and the nomological underpinning of sortal classification. From a much larger body of work the author has\u003cbr\u003eselected, edited or annotated, and variously shortened or extended eleven pieces. He has added an Introduction and one completely new essay, on the philosophy of biology and the role there of the idea of process. The collection begins with an essay postdating his Sameness and Substance Renewed\u003cbr\u003e(2001), which amends and upstages his earlier presentation of his sortalist conception of identity. In subsequent essays and the introduction Wiggins examines the contributions to these subjects made by Heraclitus, Aristotle, Leibniz, Roderick Chisholm, Hilary Putnam, Sydney Shoemaker, Michael\u003cbr\u003eAyers, Saul Kripke, W. V. Quine, David Lewis, Fei Xu, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Wiggins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198716621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198716624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"David Wiggins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640555229439,"sku":"9780198716624","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3bc768c-70b8-494b-838a-4b2874f1afc6.jpg?v=1740669937","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/continuants-david-wiggins-9780198716624","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}