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Who am I? Who is she? : a naturalistic, holistic, somatic approach to personal identity /
Are 'persons' physical things, members of the species homo sapiens which exist solely in materialist form, continuous in structure with other living things? Or is the issue a more complex one: are there more dimensions to being a person than mere physical, biological existence? These are m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt :
Ontos Verlag,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; 1 Quintessence, Aims and Structure; 1.1 General Introduction; 1.2 Working Definitions; 1.3 Who Am I? Who Is She?; 1.4 Methodological Considerations; 1.5 Structure of the Argument; 1.6 Note on Orthography and Typography; 1.7 Building Arches; 2 Self and Identity in Historical Context; 2.1 Origins of Mind, Soul, Self and Identity; 2.2 Pre-History to Plato; 2.3 Early Christian Dualism; 2.4 The Middle Age and the Soul; 2.5 Renaissance and Reason: Descartes to Locke; 2.6 Science Intervenes: Darwin to Freud; 2.7 The Story so Far; 2.8 General Historical Inferences.
- 3 Dualism, Monism and the End of the Debate3.1 Death of the Soul?; 3.2 Predicate Dualism; 3.3 Property Dualism and the Mind-Body Problem; 3.4 The Zombic Debate; 3.5 Two Classes of Dualism? And Monism?; 3.6 Perspectives for Mind and Personal Identity; 4 Body, Brain and Mind; 4.1 Embodiment; 4.2 What the Mind Cannot Be; 4.3 Things, Functions and Processes; 4.4 Body, Mind and World; 4.5 What Do We Need the Body to Do?; 4.6 The Making of the Mind; 4.7 Conscious and Unconscious Mind; 4.8 'My' Philosophy of Mind; 5 Aspects of Personal Identity; 5.1 Dimensions of the Debate.
- 5.2 Conditions of Personhood
- Dimension(A)5.3 Unity of Person
- Dimension (B); 5.4 The Meaning of Identity; 5.5 Persistence of Person
- Dimension (C); 5.6 Structure of Personality
- Dimension (D); 5.7 The Body in Philosophy; 5.8 Summing up on Personal Identity; 6 Some Reductionist Approaches; 6.1 Aspects of Reductionism; 6.2 Psychological Continuity and Replication; 6.3 Body Transplant and the Somatic Aspect; 6.4 Further Reductionist Discussions; 6.5 Frankenstein's Monster; 6.6 Reflections on Reductionist Debate; 7 Qualitative Aspects of Self and Identity; 7.1 Introductory Remark.
- 7.2 Constitution of the Self7.3 Cultural Aspect of Identity; 7.4 Relating Self to Other; 7.5 Memory, Continuity and Identity; 7.6 Broader Aspects of Memory; 7.7 Additional Aspects of Continuity; 7.8 Phenomena of Identity.