N. M. L. Nathan

A Map of Selves (eBook, PDF)

Beyond Philosophy of Mind

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The self is a perennial topic in philosophy, and its existence has been both defended and contested by philosophers including Descartes and Hume. This radical philosophical theory of the self will be of interest to those working on the philosophy of self and personal identity, philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000583229
• Artikelnr.: 63556429

Autorenporträt

N.M.L. Nathan is a former Reader in Philosophy and now Hon. Senior Fellow in the University of Liverpool, UK. His books include Evidence and Assurance (1980), Will and World (1992), and The Price of Doubt (Routledge, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Human Selves 1.1 A Remembered Quality 1.2 Introspection? 1.3 Unconsciousness 1.4 Volition 1.5 Disseveralities 1.6 Substances 1.7 Embodied 1.8 Free 1.9 Ulterior? 2. Ulterior Selves? 2.1 Continuity 2.2 Ignorance and Simplicity 2.3 The Confinement of Qualities 3. At Least One Transcendent Self 3.1 Exclusion 3.2 Evidential Sufficient Reason 3.3 An explanatory inference 3.4 The causation of disseveralities 3.5 Essence and Existence 3.6 An argument from causation 3.7 An argument from existence 4. If Selves Did Not Exist Excursus A: Primitive Modality B: Consensual Propositions. References Index