Identity and discrimination / Timothy Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Timothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

Reissued and updated ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : J. Wiley, 2013.

Summary:

Identity and Discrimination, originally published in 1990 and the first book by respected philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued and updated with the inclusion of significant new material. Williamson here proposes an original and rigorous theory linking identity, a relation central to metaphysics, and indiscriminability, a relation central to epistemology. Updated and reissued edition of Williamson's first publication, with the inclusion of significant new materialArgues for an original cognitive account of the relation between identity and discri

Contents:

Identity and Discrimination; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; 1 Concepts of Indiscriminability; 1.1 Indiscriminability and Cognition; 1.2 Formal Features of Indiscriminability; 1.3 The Intentionality of Indiscriminability; 1.4 Direct and Indirect Discrimination; 1.5 Further Reflections; 2 Logics of Indiscriminability; 2.1 Logical Apparatus; 2.2 The Non-Transitivity of Indiscriminability; 3 Paradoxes of Indiscriminability; 4 Concepts of Phenomenal Character; 4.1 Presentations of Characters; 4.2 Presentation-Sensitivity

4.3 The Identity of Characters5 Logics of Phenomenal Character; 5.1 Maximal M-Relations; 5.2 Ignorance and Indeterminacy; 5.3 Matching the Same Experiences; 6 Paradoxes of Phenomenal Character; 6.1 The Paradox of Observational Predicates; 6.2 The Paradox of Phenomenal Predicates; 6.3 The Failure of Observationality; 6.4 Sorites Arguments and Necessary Ignorance; 7 Generalizations; 7.1 Maximal M-Relations as Minimal Revisions; 7.2 Examples; 7.3 Necessary Conditions for Personal Identity; 7.4 Sufficient Conditions; 7.5 Close Relations; 8 Modal and Temporal Paradoxes; 8.1 A Modal Paradox

8.2 Two Temporal Paradoxes8.3 Comparisons; 9 Criteria of Identity; 9.1 Forms; 9.2 Functions; Appendix Maximal M-Relations and the Axiom of Choice; Notes (to the First Edition); Additional Notes (to the Revised Edition); References (to the First Edition); Additional References (to the Revised Edition); Index

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : B. Blackwell, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-118-50359-7

1-299-14900-6

1-118-50362-7

OCLC:

827208614