ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on David Wiggins's exploration into individuation, identity and substance. It assesses his view, and the various interpretations of it, of the distinction between natural things and artefacts. The book explores that Wiggins and the animalists must choose between a variety of biological models if they want to set the parameters for an investigation into the principle of activity for the human being. It shows what Wiggins might glean from the insights of philosophers of biology and, by presenting an alternative form of anti-reductionism, how he might contribute to their discussions as well. Misinterpretations were identified and a reading was offered whereby he was seen to hold that artefacts, stipulatively defined, are substances, but never paradigms of that category.
