Theo Todman's Book Collection - Works by Author

David Wiggins

[Wiggins (David)]

This Page provides links to the Books and Papers (including Book Chapters, where I have itemised these) by this Author contained in my collection. Clearly, there may be many more works in the Author's oeuvre that I don't possess. An introductory note on the Author appears first. If any (other) Authors, Books, Papers or Notes in my collection cite this Author, a table of links is provided before the list of the Author's works. Scroll down or follow the links above.

Author Narrative:

• David Wiggins is an important philosopher in the area of persistence¹ & personal² identity, and his book "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance Renewed" is essential reading.
• He was a fairly regular attendee at Oliver Black’s Salons, so I had hopes of making his acquaintance.
• Unfortunately I dithered pending the reading and understanding of his work, and now the Salon (and Oliver Black) are no more. I did talk to his wife, but not about anything philosophically important.
• I intend to write more on his philosophy in this Note³.
• See Wikipedia: David Wiggins.

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Authors, Books, Papers & Notes Citing this Author

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baillie (James)	Identity, Survival, and Sortal Concepts	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism (Continuum)	Paper		Yes
Botros (Sophie)	Truth, Time and History: A Philosophical Enquiry	Book	2	Yes
Carter (William)	Do Zygotes Become People?	Paper		Yes
Doepke (Frederick)	Identity and Natural Kinds	Paper
Doepke (Frederick)	Spatially Coinciding Objects	Paper		Yes
Edwards (Jim)	Debates About Realism Transposed to a New Key	Paper
Ferner (Adam)	Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity	Paper	2
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper		Yes
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper		Yes
Lovibond (Sabina) & Williams (S.G.)	Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins	Book
LRB	London Review of Books	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Wiggins, Artifact Identity and 'Best Candidate' Theories	Paper
Okasha (Samir)	Darwinian Metaphysics: Species And The Question Of Essentialism	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Persistence	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Putnam (Hilary)	Is There a Fact of the Matter About Fiction?	Paper		Yes
Rumfitt (Ian)	Infinitesimals, Nations, and Persons	Paper
Scruton (Roger)	An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture	Paper
Scruton (Roger)	An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy	Paper
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Brown-Brownson Revisited	Paper
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Preface	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Animalists	Note	2, 3, 4, 5
Todman (Theo)	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Note
Todman (Theo)	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Note
Todman (Theo)	Human Beings	Note
Todman (Theo)	Hybrid Theories	Note
Todman (Theo)	Intermittent Objects	Note
Todman (Theo)	Kurtz - Persistence (Introduction)	Note
Todman (Theo)	London Review of Books	Note
Todman (Theo)	Olson - What Are We? Animals	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Relative Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Semantics	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalists	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hybrid Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Intermittent Objects	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Relative Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Semantics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Wiggins	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Wiggins	Note	2
Young (J.Z.)	An Introduction to the Study of Man	Book

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Author's Books In My Possession

Author	Title	Pages	Read?	Further Information
Wiggins (David)	Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity	272	14%	Book Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity	100	5%	Book Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value	366	3%	Book Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Sameness and Substance	238	11%	Book Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Sameness and Substance Renewed	250	16%	Book Abstract

Author's Papers In My Possession

Author	Title	Pages	Read?	Further Information
Wiggins (David)	A Sensible Subjectivism	30		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Activity, Process, Continuant, Substance, Organism	10	33%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Ayer on Monism, Pluralism and Essence	30		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Ayer on Morality and Feeling: From Subjectivism to Emotivism and Back?	28		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Claims of Need	58		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Conceptualism and Realism	18		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Conceptualism and Realism (S&S)	20		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity: Introduction	15	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Deliberation and Practical Reason	24		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Essentialism and Conceptualism (S&S)	26		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Essentialism, Continuity, and Identity	39		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Existence and Contingency - A Note	12		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Heraclitus' Conception of Flux, Fire, and Material Persistence	29	4%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Appendix: Some Residual Problems About Sortal Concepts	6		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Introduction	2	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Notes	14		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Part 1.1: Relative Identity	1	Yes	Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Part 1.2: Leibniz's Law and the Difficulties of Relative Identity	3		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Part 2: Towards a Formal Theory of Substances	14		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Part 3: Summary of First Two Parts, and Essentialist Postscript	2		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Part 4: Self, Body and Spatio-Temporal Continuity	16		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Parts 1.3-8: Five Ways to be Wrong About Relative Identity	22		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Identity and Supervenience	19		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Identity, Individuation, and Substance	32	63%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Identity, Necessity and Physicalism	36		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Identity: Absolute, Determinate, and All Or Nothing, Like No Other Relation But Itself	36		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Individuative Essentialism	32		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind	26	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Longer Notes (S&S)	34		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Meaning and Truth Conditions: From Frege's Grand Design To Davidson's	26		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Mereological Essentialism and Chisholm on Parts, Wholes, and Primary Things	10	22%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Metaphysics: Substance	32		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Moral Cognitivism, Moral Relativism and Motivating Moral Beliefs	25		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Natural and Artificial Virtues: A Vindication of Hume's Scheme	10		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Nature, Respect for Nature, and the Human Scale of Values	32		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Needs, Values, Truth: Postscript	44		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Objective and Subjective in Ethics, With Two Postscripts About Truth	16		Paper
Wiggins (David)	On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	6	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	On Singling Out an Object Determinately	12		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Outline of a Theory of Individuation	22		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Outline of a Theory of Individuation (S&S)	30		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Personal Identity	52	48%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Personal Identity (S&S)	41		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Practical Knowledge: Knowing How To and Knowing That	34		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Preamble (S&S)	14	Yes	Paper
Wiggins (David)	Preamble, Chiefly Concerned With Matters Methodological and Terminological	20		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Précis of 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'	7		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Preface: Sameness and Substance	4	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed	8	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Putnam's Concept of Natural Kind Words and Frege's Doctrines of Sense, Reference, and Extension: Can They Cohere?	15	17%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Replies to Reviews of 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'	7		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Replies: Autobiographical Comments	12		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Replies: To those other than Noonan, Snowdon and Williamson	36		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Comments by Marcus and Hacking on Wiggins - Identity, Necessity and Physicalism	23		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Mr. Chandler	2		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Noonan (Absolute and Relative Identity)	6		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Richard Wollheim	17		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Reply To Shoemaker	16		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Reply To Shoemaker's Reply	2		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Snowdon (Persons and Personal Identity)	5	Yes	Paper
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Williamson (The Necessity and Determinacy of Distinctness)	7		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Sameness, Substance, and the Human Person	12	17%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Sortal Concepts: A Reply to Xu	10	22%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Sortal Concepts: and the Characteristic Activity or Function or Purpose of their Compliants	30		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Sortal Concepts: and the Characteristic Activity or Function or Purpose of their Compliants (S&S)	26		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Substance	30	4%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David) & Woods (Michael J.)	Symposium: The Individuation of Things and Places	40	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	The Absoluteness of Sameness	34		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	The Absoluteness of Sameness (S&S)	32		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	The Concept of the Subject Contains the Concept of the Predicate	22	11%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	The Concern to Survive	10	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	The De Re 'Must', Individuative Essentialism, and the Necessity of Identity	26	10%	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value	19	Yes	Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Three moments in the theory of definition or analysis: its possibility, its aim or aims, and its limit or terminus	41		Paper Abstract
Wiggins (David)	Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism	34		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Truth as Predicated of Moral Judgments	46		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Truth, Invention and the Meaning of Life	52		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Universalizability, Impartiality, Truth	28		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Weakness of Will: Commensurability, and the Objects of Deliberation and Desire	30		Paper
Wiggins (David)	Wittgenstein on Ethics and the Riddle of Life	29		Paper Abstract

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