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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.
E.J. Lowe (1950-2014) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. One of the foremost metaphysicians working in philosophy during his time, he was the author of numerous influential articles and books in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and the history of philosophy, including Kinds of Being (Blackwell, 1989) and, more recently, The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science (2006).
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
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