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Body, mind and self in Hume's critical realism /
This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a str...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt :
Ontos Verlag,
2008.
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| Colección: | Philosophische Analyse ;
Bd. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Note; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter OneSelf as Substance; (1) The Substance Tradition1; (2) The Metaphysics of Morals; (3) Morality and the Substantial Self Untied; (4) Human Nature Defended; (5) George Grant: Aristotelian Moral Philosophy Made Modern; (6) Another Sort of Mind; (7) Minds as Bundles; Endnotes to Chapter One; Chapter TwoNominalism and Acquaintance; (1) Individuation and Nominalism; (2) The Principle of Acquaintance in Locke and Hume; (3) The Appeal to Acquaintance: Empiricism vs. Descartes; (4) Hume's Nominalism; (5) Nominalism and Relations.
- (6) Nominalism, Causation, Substances and ThingsEndnotes to Chapter Two; Chapter ThreeFrom the Substance Tradition through Locketo Hume:Ordinary Things and Critical Realism; (1) Up to Locke; (2) From Locke to Hume9; (3) Hume's Causal Inference to Critical Realism; (4) The System of the Vulgar as False, Inevitable and Reasonable; (5) The World of the Philosophers; (6) Conclusion; Endnotes to Chapter Three; The Disappearance of the Simple Self: ItsProblems; (1) Substance and Self in Locke1; (2) The Contents of the Humean Mind; (3) Explaining Consciousness; (4) Privacy and Other Minds.
- (5) The Problem of the Self in HumeEndnotes to Chapter Four; Chapter FiveHume's Positive Account of the Self; (1) Mind and Body; (2) The Bodily Criterion; (3) Humean Persons; (4) Becoming Our Selves; (5) Conclusion
- The Final One; Endnotes to Chapter Five; Bibliography.