`a worthy final member of an important trilogy, if not the best of the three ... there is no doubt that the author is a virtuoso of this style of philosophizing, a style which, if pursued as carefully and as thoughtfully as Williams pursues it, can still offer valuable insights'Times Literary Supplement

• The paradox of identity: Plato to Russell; Wittgenstein: Identity not a relation; The need for a sign of identity; Same and self; An Eirenic interlude; Identity and indiscernibility; Arithmetical equations; The identity of events; Personal identity; Being, identity and truth

`a worthy final member of an important trilogy, if not the best of the three ... there is no doubt that the author is a virtuoso of this style of philosophizing, a style which, if pursued as carefully and as thoughtfully as Williams pursues it, can still offer valuable insights'Times Literary Supplement

• The paradox of identity: Plato to Russell; Wittgenstein: Identity not a relation; The need for a sign of identity; Same and self; An Eirenic interlude; Identity and indiscernibility; Arithmetical equations; The identity of events; Personal identity; Being, identity and truth