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In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he vindicates the absoluteness, necessity, determinateness and all or nothing character of identity against rival conceptions. He defends a form of essentialism that he calls individuative essentialism, and then a form of realism that he calls conceptualist realism. In a final chapter he advocates a human being-based conception of the identity and individuation of persons, arguing that any satisfactory account of personal memory must make reference to the life of the rememberer himself. This important book will appeal to a wide range of readers in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and analytic philosophy.

Metaphysics --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Individuation (Philosophy) --- Essentialism (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Identité --- Individu (Philosophie) --- Essence (Philosophie) --- Conceptualisme --- Substance (Philosophie) --- Conceptualism. --- Identity. --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Identité --- Essence (Philosophy) --- Individuals (Philosophy) --- Individuation --- Particulars (Philosophy) --- Identity --- Matter --- Ontology --- Reality --- Nominalism --- Realism --- Scholasticism --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Haecceity (Philosophy) --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Arts and Humanities

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Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—and does so in a way that the thinking reader, increasingly perplexed by the everyday problem of moral philosophy, can follow. His work is thus an introduction to ethics that presupposes nothing more than the reader’s willingness to read philosophical proposals closely and literally. Gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and a twentieth-century assortment of post-utilitarian thinkers, and drawing on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil, and Philippa Foot, Wiggins points to the special role of the sentiments of solidarity and reciprocity that human beings will find within themselves. After examining the part such sentiments play in sustaining our ordinary ideas of agency and responsibility, he searches the political sphere for a neo-Aristotelian account of justice that will cohere with such an account of morality. Finally, Wiggins turns to the standing of morality and the question of the objectivity or reality of ethical demands. As the need arises at various points in the book, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato, C. S. Peirce, Darwin, Schopenhauer, Leibniz, John Rawls, Montaigne and others—always emphasizing the words of the philosophers under discussion, and giving readers the resources to arrive at their own viewpoint of why and how ethics matters.

Ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Philosophy --- Aristotle --- Hume, David, --- Kant, Immanuel, --- General ethics --- Acqui 2006 --- Hume, David, - 1711-1776 --- Kant, Immanuel, - 1724-1804

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Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Space and time --- Identité --- Espace et temps --- Aristotle. --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,

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