TY - JOUR
AU - Tahko, Tuomas E.
AB - 302 Book Reviews 102 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA, 70806 USA jroland@lsu.edu doi:10.1093/mind/fzt042 Advance Access publication 18 May 2013 More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms, by E. J. Lowe. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xii + 227. H/b £70.00. The publication of More Kinds of Being marked the twentieth anniversary of Kinds of Being (1989). This second expanded edition adds three new chapters as well as revised content and updated references. The new edition is very welcome, since the original book is all but a collector’s item. This is a sign of the importance of the book, finally available to a new generation of readers. Although much of the original book’s content remains relevant, Lowe has also made important progress on its themes. The most significant develop- ment is his four-category ontology (developed in his The Four-Category Ontology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), which is briefly presented in a new section of chapter one (pp. 8–11). Whereas in Kinds of Being Lowe was primarily interested in the distinction between particular objects and the kinds that they instantiate, in More Kinds of Being two further categories of being are included, namely attributes 
TI - More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms, by E. J. Lowe.
JF - Mind
DO - 10.1093/mind/fzt020
DA - 2013-01-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/more-kinds-of-being-a-further-study-of-individuation-identity-and-the-IN4jX4YYlc
SP - 302
EP - 305
VL - 122
IS - 485
DP - DeepDyve
ER -