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Baruch Brody Identity and Essence. (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1980)

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Baruch Brody Identity and Essence. (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1980)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Bernard Linsky
Bernard Linsky*
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University of Alberta
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 1982 , pp. 391 - 407
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References

1 Geach, Peter T. Reference and Generality (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1968)Google Scholar

2 I take this sketch from: Gottlieb, Dale ‘No Entity Without Identity,’ in Shahan, R.W. and Swoyer, C. eds., Essays on the Philosophy of W. V. Quine (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1979) 79–96.Google Scholar

3 This story from Sydney Shoemaker is discussed by Perry, John in ‘Can the Self Divide?', Journal of Philosophy, 69 (1972) 463-88.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Perry, 468

5 Which is discussed as such by Brody on pp. 105-6.

6 Frege, Gottlob ‘On Sense and Reference,’ in Geach, P.T. and Black, M. Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1970) 56Google Scholar

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9 See the preface to Kripke, Saul Naming and Necessity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1980).Google Scholar

10 He takes such empirical evidence to be evidence against the adequacy of the I of I (p. 145).

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12 I discuss Brody's arguments further in ‘Is Transmutation Possible?', forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.

13 Wiggins, David Sameness and Substance (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1980)Google Scholar