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Identity and Its Significance.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Identity and Its Significance./
Author:	Thornton, Zachary.
Description:	1 online resource (132 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
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ISBN:	9798382631325

Identity and Its Significance.
Thornton, Zachary.

Identity and Its Significance. - 1 online resource (132 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation focuses on the nature of numerical identity and its significance in philosophy. It argues that identity has a special role in philosophical theorizing about number and ontology, though not in theorizing about what matters in survival. It also develops and defends a novel account of numerical identity's nature.In "Chapter 1: What Matters When Becoming a Vampire?", I argue that what matters in survival involves multiple independent dimensions of value. This argument proceeds from cases of personal transformation, such as L.A. Paul's (2014) case of becoming a vampire.In "Chapter 2: Self-Interest and Identity," I develop a theory of what matters in survival that captures its multidimensionality. I argue that this account avoids challenges raised by Derek Parfit and Christine Korsgaard.In "Chapter 3: Counting by Discriminability," I bring tools from epistemology and philosophy of language to bear on counting puzzles that arise from accepting ontologically permissive theories - theories on which reality contains a vast abundance of unfamiliar objects, such as mugs that can only exist on Tuesday - and argue that such theories need not overturn our commonsense counting judgments.Finally, in "Chapter 4: The Identity of Necessary Indiscernibles," I propose a novel account of the nature of identity according to which objects are identical if they are necessarily indiscernible. I then argue that this account is preferable to all the extant accounts.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382631325Subjects--Topical Terms:

559771
Philosophy.
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