To Be F Is To Be G

Philosophical Perspectives 30 (1):39-134 (2016)
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This paper is an investigation of the general logic of "identifications", claims such as 'To be a vixen is to be a female fox', 'To be human is to be a rational animal', and 'To be just is to help one's friends and harm one's enemies', many of which are of great importance to philosophers. I advocate understanding such claims as expressing higher-order identity, and discuss a variety of different general laws which they might be thought to obey. [New version: Nov. 4th, 2016]

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reprint Dorr, Cian (2006) "To Be F Is To Be G". In Hawthorne, John, Philosophical Perspectives, Metaphysics, pp. : Wiley-Blackwell (2006)

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