Personal Identity

Complex or Simple?
Herausgeber: Gasser, Georg; Stefan, Matthias

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of 'complex' and 'simple' theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781107014442
• ISBN-10: 1107014441
• Artikelnr.: 35910980

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Framing the Question: 1. Chitchat on personal identity David Barnett
2. In search of the simple view Eric T. Olson
3. Personal identity, indeterminacy, and obligation Ryan Wasserman
4. Personal identity and its perplexities Harold W. Noonan
Part II. Arguments for and against Simplicity: 5. How to determine which is the true theory of personal identity Richard Swinburne
6. Against simplicity Sydney Shoemaker
7. The probable simplicity of personal identity E. J. Lowe
8. Reply to E. J. Lowe Sydney Shoemaker
9. The non-descriptive individual nature of conscious beings Martine Nida-Rümelin
Part III. Reconsidering Simplicity: 10. Personal identity: a not-so-simple simple view Lynne Rudder Baker
11. Is 'person' a sortal term? Christian Kanzian
12. Materialism, dualism, and 'simple' theories of personal identity Dean Zimmerman
13. The morphing block and diachronic personal identity Hud Hudson
References
Index.