Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity

New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2016)
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Abstract

For this volume David Wiggins has selected and revised eleven of his essays in an area of metaphysics where his work has been particularly influential, and he has added a substantial introduction and one new unpublished essay. Among the subjects treated are substance, identity, persistence, persons, sortals, and artefacts.

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