Indeterminate Identity

Terence Parsons presents a lively and original study of philosophical questions about identity, such as: Is a person identical with that person's body? Puzzles of this kind have not been solved; Parsons argues, controversially, that this is because there is genuine indeterminacy of identity in the world, rather than in the language used to formulate the questions.

Terence Parsons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.

It is not only those already involved in those debates that should read this book: in particular, it has much to offer for people working in the two disciplines cited in the subtitle - metaphysics and semantics Mind This monograph provides by far the most detailed defence of worldly indeterminacy of identity available in the literature. The discussion ranges over a broad array of issues, adopting inventive as well as rigorous techniques and strategies Mind