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Write-up2 (as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12): Wiggins
Plug Note3
- Thesis Text:
- I’m also much indebted to David Wiggins’s concept of a Phase(d) Sortal4 and his work on Continuity5 and Substance6.
- However, ostensibly these jottings appear here in the discussion because Wiggins is often taken to be an Animalist7. However, this is disputed, and I hope to be able to resolve the issue. It might ultimately be best to consider Wiggins under one of the above heads instead.
- In various works, Wiggins documents the development of his thoughts on Continuity8, most recently (2016) in "Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity: Introduction".
- As far as I know, Wiggins’s latest statement of his thoughts on Identity, Individuation and Substance is "Wiggins (David) - Identity, Individuation, and Substance", originally published in 2012, but “much revised” for "Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity".
- Subject to the above, I believe "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity" in "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance Renewed" (SSR) to be Wiggins’s latest word on Personal Identity, carrying on the work in "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Snowdon (Persons and Personal Identity)", in response to "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons and Personal Identity".
- In turn, these responded to, or build on, "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity (S&S)" in "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance" (S&S), which is completely superseded by the corresponding chapter in SSR.
- S&S is itself built on "Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity".
- In "Lovibond (Sabina) & Williams (S.G.) - Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins", Wiggins himself acknowledges indebtedness to:-
→ "Williamson (Timothy) - The Necessity and Determinacy of Distinctness", and
→ "Noonan (Harold) - Absolute and Relative Identity"
in addition to the piece by Paul Snowdon mentioned above.
Further Remarks:
- The purpose of this Note is (eventually) to summarise David Wiggins’s work in the areas of Logic and Metaphysics that bear on my Thesis9.
- Another reason I wished to become more familiar with Wiggins’s work was that he sometimes attended the “Salons” hosted by Oliver Black, so it was not out of the question that I might get to talk to him, and would have liked to be reasonably clued up. Unfortunately, Oliver died at the end of 2018, so this opportunity has disappeared.
- I will not cover in this Note Wiggins’s work in Moral Philosophy or other areas in which he has made major contributions to philosophy outside of Personal Identity and Persistence.
References
- Relevant Works cited above:
- "Lovibond (Sabina) & Williams (S.G.) - Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins", 1997, Book, Read = 10%
- "Noonan (Harold) - Absolute and Relative Identity", 1996, Read = 17%
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons and Personal Identity", 1996, Annotations, Read
- "Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity", 2016, Book, Read = 14%
- "Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity: Introduction", 2016, Read
- "Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity", 1967, Book, Read = 5%
- "Wiggins (David) - Identity, Individuation, and Substance", 2016, Internal PDF Link, Read = 63%
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity", 2001, Read = 48%
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity (S&S)", 1980
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Snowdon (Persons and Personal Identity)", 1996, No Abstract, Read
- "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance", 1980, Book, Read = 11%
- "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Book, Read = 16%
- "Williamson (Timothy) - The Necessity and Determinacy of Distinctness", 1996, Read = 27%
- For a Page of Links10 to this Note, Click here. There are a lot of references, and I’ve not looked into them yet. Note that I categorise – or intend to categorise – only those works relevant to my research as “Wiggins”. To save cluttering the list, books but not their chapters are thus flagged.
- Works on this topic that I’ve actually read11, include the following:-
- General:
- "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online", 2011/2017, Write-Up Note12, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons and Personal Identity", 1996, Annotations
- Wiggins:
- "Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity: Introduction", 2016
- "Wiggins (David) - On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time", 1968, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Preamble (S&S)", 1980, Annotations, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - Preface: Sameness and Substance", 1980, Annotations
- "Wiggins (David) - Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Annotations
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Snowdon (Persons and Personal Identity)", 1996, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - The Concern to Survive", 1987, Annotations
- "Wiggins (David) - The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value", 1987, Annotations
- A further reading list might start with:-
- General:
- "Bakhurst (David) - Review of David Wiggins's 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Bakhurst (David) - Wiggins on Persons and Human Nature", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Baldwin (Thomas) - Reviews: Sameness and Substance by David Wiggins; Objects and Identity by Harold Noonan", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Bourgeois (Warren) - Contemporary Philosophers' Views on Persons: Wiggins and Williams", 2003
- "Cartwright (Helen Morris) - Review of 'Sameness and Substance' by David Wiggins", 1982, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Chandler (Hugh S.) - Wiggins on Identity", 1969, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Doyle (Robert O.) - David Wiggins", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Ferguson (Matthew) - Bart Ehrman and Jodi Magness on the Burial of Jesus and the Empty Tomb", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
- "Ferner (Adam) - Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
- "Griffin (Nicholas) - Wiggins On Sortals", 1977, No Abstract
- "Griffin (Nicholas) - Wiggins's (D)-Relative Identity Theory", 1977
- "Hacking (Ian) - Comments on Wiggins - Identity, Necessity and Physicalism", 1976, No Abstract
- "Lovibond (Sabina) & Williams (S.G.) - Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins", 1997, Book, Read = 10%
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Is Conceptualist Realism a Stable Position?", 2005, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Review of Wiggins's 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'", 2003, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Marcus (Ruth Barcan) - Comments on Wiggins - Identity, Necessity and Physicalism", 1976, No Abstract
- "Meixner (Uwe) - The Rationality of (A Form of) Relative Identity", 2005, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Absolute and Relative Identity", 1996, Read = 17%
- "Noonan (Harold) - Wiggins on Identity", 1976, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Wiggins' Second Thoughts on Identity", 1981, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Wiggins, Artifact Identity and 'Best Candidate' Theories", 1985, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Runggaldier (Edmund) - Comments of Wiggins's 'Identity and Supervenience'", 2002, No Abstract
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Reply To Wiggins", 2004
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Wiggins on Identity", 1970, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Wiggins on Identity", 1971, No Abstract, Footnote13
- "Smart (Brian) - Personal Identity in an Organized Parcel", 1973, Internal PDF Link
- "Thomas (James) - Review of Wiggins's 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'", 2003, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Williamson (Timothy) - The Necessity and Determinacy of Distinctness", 1996, Read = 27%
- Wiggins:
- "Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity", 2016, Book, Read = 14%
- "Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity", 1967, Book, Read = 5%
- "Wiggins (David) - Identity and Supervenience", 2002
- "Wiggins (David) - Identity, Individuation, and Substance", 2016, Internal PDF Link, Read = 63%
- "Wiggins (David) - Identity, Necessity and Physicalism", 1976
- "Wiggins (David) - Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value", 1987, Book, Read = 3%
- "Wiggins (David) - On Singling Out an Object Determinately", 1986, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity", 2001, Read = 48%
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity (S&S)", 1980
- "Wiggins (David) - Précis of 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'", 2005, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Replies to Reviews of 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Comments by Marcus and Hacking on Wiggins - Identity, Necessity and Physicalism", 1976, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Mr. Chandler", 1969, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Noonan (Absolute and Relative Identity)", 1996, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Richard Wollheim", 1978, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker's Reply", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Williamson (The Necessity and Determinacy of Distinctness)", 1996, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance", 1980, Book, Read = 11%, Footnote14
- "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Book, Read = 16%
- For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
- Read: No items to list.
- Further Reading: No items to list.
- This is mostly a place-holder15.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 2:
- This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (06/07/2023 00:43:12).
- Link to Latest Write-Up Note.
Footnote 13:
- Not the same as the previous paper.
Footnote 14:
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