Zach Blaesi
University of Texas at Austin
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  • To Be F Is To Be G
    Cian Dorr
    Philosophical Perspectives 30 (1): 39-134. 2016.
    This paper is an investigation of the general logic of "identifications", claims such as 'To be a vixen is to be a female fox', 'To be human is to be a rational animal', and 'To be just is to help one's friends and harm one's enemies', many of which are of great importance to philosophers. I advocate understanding such claims as expressing higher-order identity, and discuss a variety of different general laws which they might be thought to obey. [New version: Nov. 4th, 2016]