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Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in the metaphysics of personal identity, questions in value theory, and discusses questions about the fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garrett, Brian, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Colección:International library of philosophy.
Temas:
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Identité.
Conscience de soi.
identity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. The problem and its place in philosophy
  • The problem of personal identity
  • What is a person?
  • What is it for the same person to persist through time?
  • The methodology of thought-experiments
  • Why is personal identity important?
  • 2. Animalism and reductionism
  • Animalism
  • An argument for animalism
  • The animalist's argument rebuffed
  • Models of reductionism
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Criteria of personal identity
  • The range of criteria
  • The physical criterion
  • The psychological criterion
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Fission
  • The importance of Fission
  • Six responses to Fission
  • The best candidate theory of personal identity
  • Some comments on the best candidate theory
  • The lesson of Fission
  • 5. Identity and vagueness
  • The commitment to vagueness
  • Evans' proof
  • Evans' proof examined
  • Evans' proof and Kripke's proof
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Parfit and `what matters'
  • Persons and value theory
  • A new value theory?
  • Note continued: Self-concern and special concern
  • Four arguments for the new value theory
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Anscombe on `I'
  • Introduction
  • The common-sense view of `I'
  • Two arguments against the common-sense view
  • Anscombe's positive view
  • Supporting the referential view
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Wittgenstein on `I'
  • Introduction
  • Wittgenstein and the `as subject' use of `I'
  • Running repairs to the `as subject' / `as object' distinction
  • The status of the `as subject' use
  • Interpreting Wittgenstein on avowals: reference, knowledge and authority
  • Conclusion.

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