The Concept of Identity

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ABOUT THE BOOK : The concept of Identity lies at the heart of human thought, shaping our understanding of individually, essence, persistence, and meaning. This book unpacks the deceptive simplicity of the concept, tracing its role across metaphysics, logic and language. From Western analytic debates on identity, individually, indiscernibility, congruence, equivalence, and the foundations of first-order logic to Wittgenstein’s radical reinterpretation of identity, this book explores how philosophers from G. Frege and B. Russell to W.V.O. Quine, P.T. Geach. D. Wiggins, and S. Kripke, among others have also grappled with the ontological puzzles of constitution, sameness, change, and continuity over time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Dr. Tamoghna Sarkar is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Jadavpur University, specializing in Indian Philosophy with a particular focus on Jainism, philosophical logic, and metaphysics. He has taught at several colleges across West Bengal and regularly lectures on Jainism at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata. His research spans Western Metaphysics, Indian Philosophy and comparative philosophy with numerous publications in both English and Bengali, including works on the metaphysics and logic of identity, Buddhist logic, Nyaya Advaita Vedanta, and Jainism.