More Kinds Of Being - A Further Study Of Individuation, Identity, And The Logic Of Sortal Terms

Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being:A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition of Kinds of Being
Brings many of the original ideas and arguments put forth in Kinds of Being thoroughly up to date in light of new developments
Features a thorough reworking and expansion of the earlier work, rather than just a new edition
Reflects the author's conversion to what he calls 'the four-category ontology,' a metaphysical system that takes its inspiration from Aristotle
Provides a unified discussion of individuation and identity that should prove to be essential reading for philosophers working in metaphysics.

E.J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. One of the foremost metaphysicians working in philosophy today, he is the author of numerous influential articles and books in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and the history of philosophy, including Kinds of Being (Blackwell, 1989) and, most recently, The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science (2006).

"Throughout, one finds the usual clarity, thoroughness, and systematic thinking that are a mark of all of Lowe's ever expanding and remarkable corpus. This book should be in every college and university library." (CHOICE, July 2010)
"More Kinds of Being is densely and masterfully argued, written with great clarity, and makes a number of important original contributions to the field. It is certainly essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary analytical metaphysics. This is a metaphysical study of lasting value and significance." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 12, 2010)

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
The Varieties of ‘Is’
Individuals, Kinds, and Realism
Semantics, Metaphysics, and Necessity
New Developments
2. Sortal Terms and Criteria of Identity
3. Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation
4. Number, Unity, and Individuality
5. The Absoluteness of Identity: A Defence
Appendix: Some Formal Principles and Arguments
6. Identity and Constitution
7. Parts and Wholes
8. Persons and Their Bodies
Matter and Organisms
Organisms and Persons
Is There a Criterion of Personal Identity?
9. Sortal Terms and Natural Laws
10. Plural Quantification and Sortal Reference
11. Laws, Dispositions, and Sortal Logic
Appendix: An Axiomatic System of Sortal Logic
12. What Sorts of Things Are There?
The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Sortal Terms
On the Identity of Sorts
Bibliography
Index