scholarly journals Contingent Identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 486-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Identity

Leading a Double Life: Statues and Pieces of Clay

Metaphysica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-277
Author(s):  
John Biro
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Identity ◽  
Independent Reason

AbstractSome philosophers think that two distinct things can occupy exactly the same region of space, as with a statue and a piece of clay. Others think that the statue and the piece of clay are identical, but not necessarily so. I argue that Alan Gibbard’s well-known story of Goliath and Lumpl does not support either of these claims. Not the first, as there is independent reason to think that it cannot be true. Not the second, because there is no need to invoke the dubiously intelligible notion of contingent identity to account for the facts of the story.

Contingent identity and vague identity

Analysis ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Identity ◽  
Vague Identity

scholarly journals C. S. Peirce on the dynamic object of a sign: From ontology to semiotics and back

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-437
Author(s):  
Helmut Pape
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dynamic Object ◽  
Contingent Identity ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Relational Properties ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Structural Account ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Normative Role

That reality, and in particular the (dynamic) objects of signs, are independent of our thoughts or other representations is a crucial thesis of Peirce’s realism. On the other hand, his semiotics implies the claim that all reality and all real objects are real for us only because of the signs we use. Do these two claims contradict, even exclude, each other? I will argue that both Peirce’s metaphysics and his semiotics provide a natural via media: a structural account of the openness of processes, featuring transitive relations, connects process ontology implicit in his evolutionary metaphysics and the relational, quasi-inferential features embodied in interpretational sequences of signs. It is shown that Peirce’s notion of a sign, its normative role and his account of the directional force of objects implies a sort of logical causality that supports the unity of objects. In this way sign sequences are able to relate flexibly sign use with contextually specified independent objects. That is to say, relational properties of object-oriented chains of interpretations provide sign users with a flexible, fallibilistic instrument able to capture by contingent identity relations (teridentity) of the identity of objects in changing situations.Includes: Comment by Francesco Bellucci (pp. 433–437).

Contingent Identity and Rigid Designation

Mind ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol XCVI (382) ◽  
pp. 250-255
Author(s):  
WILLIAM R. CARTER
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Identity ◽  
Rigid Designation

The Contingent Identity of Particulars and Universals

Mind ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol XCIII (372) ◽  
pp. 527-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALBERT CASULLO
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Identity

scholarly journals Critical comments of Harold N. Noonan’s theory of contingent identity

KÜLÖNBSÉG ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikoletta Nemesi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Contingent Identity

Alla Gibbard’s famous essay on the possibility of contingent identity (1975) questions the validity of  Barcan and Kripke’s argument on the necessity of identity (1947, 1971). Gibbard’s theory has inspired several philosophers to rethink the problem of personal identity. The paper presents a critical analysis of Harold N. Noonan’s theory of contingent identity (1991, 1993, 2005, Curtis-Noonan 2014).

VII.—THE CONTINGENT IDENTITY OF MINDS AND BRAINS

Mind ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol LXXVI (303) ◽  
pp. 404-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENNY TEICHMANN
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Identity

Powerlessness and Personalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-343
Author(s):  
Victoria I. Burke ◽  
Robin D. Burke ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Contingent Identity ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Atypical Form ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Social Mediation ◽  
Social Struggle ◽  
Computer Mediated

Is privacy the key ethical issue of the internet age? This coauthored essay argues that even if all of a user’s privacy concerns were met through secure communication and computation, there are still ethical problems with personalized information systems. Our objective is to show how computer-mediated life generates what Ernesto Laclou and Chantal Mouffe call an “atypical form of social struggle.” Laclau and Mouffe develop a politics of contingent identity and transient articulation (or social integration) by means of the notions of absent, symbolic, hegemonic power and antagonistic transitions or relations. In this essay, we introduce a critical approach to one twenty-first-century atypical social struggle that, we claim, has a disproportionate effect on those who experience themselves as powerless. Our aim is to render explicit the forms of social mediation and distortion that result from large-scale machine learning as applied to personal preference information. We thus bracket privacy in order to defend some aspects of the EU GDPR that will give individuals more control over their experience of the internet if they want to use it and, thereby, decrease the unwanted epistemic effects of the internet. Our study is thus a micropolitics in in the Deleuzian micropolitical sense and a preliminary analysis of an atypical social struggle.

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