Personal Ontology : Mystery and Its Consequences
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1009367064
ISBN-13
9781009367066
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 21st, 2025
Print length
249 Pages
Weight
370 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Oriental & Indian philosophyPhilosophy: metaphysics & ontologyPhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledgePopular philosophyEast Asian and Indian philosophyPhilosophy: metaphysics and ontologyPhilosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledgePopular philosophyThe afterlife, reincarnation and past livesThe afterlife, reincarnation & past lives
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What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios.
What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? In this book, Andrew Brenner argues that there are principled obstacles to our discovering the answer to this fundamental metaphysical question. The main competing accounts of personal ontology hold that we are either souls (or composites of soul and body), or we are composite physical objects of some sort, but, as Brenner shows, arguments for either of these options can be parodied and transformed into their opposites. Brenner also examines arguments for and against the existence of the self, offers a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios - resurrection, reincarnation, and mind uploading -- and considers whether agnosticism with respect to personal ontology should lead us to agnosticism with respect to the possibility of life after death.
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