Bücher von David Wiggins

The purpose of this story is to bring about a greater awareness of the thousands of feral children that live in our world and how they obtain clean drinking water and a daily meal. Feral children are without an adult to care for them and to assist them to find a home, so we should stand in the place of the absent adult, we should care for all the children in the world that have no parents and carers, it is our moral duty. Jesus Christ said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such of these."

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.