David Wiggins: A Personal Philosophical Memoir
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چکیده
My first encounter with David Wiggins’ thought occurred a few weeks before I took my undergraduate final examinations in Oxford 1971. In Blackwell's Bookshop came across slim blue volume Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity . purchased it read cover-to-cover the same day. It was immediately clear that this contemporary writing different league from anything had previously on topic.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1469-817X', '0031-8191']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819122000158