Real People : Personal Identity without Thought Experiments
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Clarendon Paperbacks
ISBN-10
0198240805
ISBN-13
9780198240808
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 18th, 1993
Print length
260 Pages
Weight
346 grams
Dimensions
14.20 x 21.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of mindThe self, ego, identity, personality
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This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is stranger than fiction.
This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of person–a vexed question in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-life conditions, including infancy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains. The popular faith in continuity of consciousness, and the unity of the person is subjected to sustained criticism. The author concludes with a look at different views of the person found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science.
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