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Title: Unconvincing
Review: This book is a codification and expansion of work done in a pair of articles by Parsons and Peter Woodruff on the topic of vague identity. The expansion doesn't make the work any more convincing, however - especially for those philosophers who find the idea of ontic vague identity suspect to begin with. Nevertheless, it is a decent source for how the Indefinitist may levy vague identity to solve some of those old philosophical chessnuts (e.g., the problem of the many, the ship of theseus, etc.). I'm of the opinion that the "solutions" fail even apart from the dubious coherence of vague identity, but it's likely to strike some as right.
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