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Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition of Kinds of Being.
Brings many of the original ideas and arguments put forth in Kinds of Being thoroughly up to date in light of new developments
Features a thorough reworking and expansion of the earlier work, rather than just a new edition
Reflects the author's conversion to what he calls 'the four-category ontology,' a metaphysical system that takes its inspiration from Aristotle
Provides a unified discussion of individuation and identity that should prove to be essential reading for philosophers working in metaphysics.
Contents
Preface* vii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
The Varieties of 'Is' 3
Individuals, Kinds, and Realism 4
Semantics, Metaphysics, and Necessity 6
New Developments* 8
2 Sortal Terms and Criteria of Identity 12
3 Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation 29
4 Number, Unity, and Individuality* 42
5 The Absoluteness of Identity: A Defence 57
Appendix: Some Formal Principles and Arguments 72
6 Identity and Constitution 77
7 Parts and Wholes 92
8 Persons and Their Bodies 104
Matter and Organisms 104
Organisms and Persons 113
Is There a Criterion of Personal Identity? 125
9 Sortal Terms and Natural Laws 141
10 Plural Quantification and Sortal Reference* 164
11 Laws, Dispositions, and Sortal Logic 179
Appendix: An Axiomatic System of Sortal Logic 194
12 What Sorts of Things Are There?* 198
The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Sortal Terms 198
On the Identity of Sorts 212
Bibliography* 217
Index 223
