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Person and object : a metaphysical study /
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Muirhead library of philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 An Approach to Philosophy; 2 Philosophical Data; 3 Some Objections Considered; 4 Premature Speculations; 5 A Minimum Philosophical Vocabulary; Chapter I. The Direct Awareness of the Self; 1 A Philosophical Question; 2 Acquaintance: A Preliminary Statement; 3 Self-Presenting States; 4 Direct Acquaintance; 5 Individuation Per Se; 6 The Humean Tradition; 7 The Kantian Considerations; 8 Inner Perception; Chapter II. Agency; 1 'He Could Have Done Otherwise'
- 2 Some Unsatisfactory Answers3 A Proposed Solution; 4 Freedom and Indeterminism; 5 The Agent as Cause; 6 A Note on Deliberate Omission; 7 Endeavouring; 8 Purposive Activity; 9 Some Further Philosophical Questions; Chapter III. Identity through Time; 1 The Ship of Theseus; 2 Playing Loose with the 'Is' of Identity; 3 An Interpretation of Bishop Butler's Theses; 4 Feigning Identity; 5 The Persistence of Persons through Time; 6 'Will I Be He?': Truth-Conditions and Criteria; Chapter IV. States of Affairs; 1 Introduction; 2 The Ontology of States of Affairs; 3 Some Alternative Conceptions.
- 4 Propositions5 The Times and Places of States of Affairs; 6 Events; 7 Recurrence; 8 Events as Coming into Being and Passing Away; 9 De Re Explanation; 10 Cause and Effect: De Dicto and De Re; 11 Perception; 12 Particular Occurrences; 13 Individual Things; Appendix; A. The Doctrine of Temporal Parts; 1 Temporal Parts; 2 The Argument from Spatial Analogy; 3 Phillip Drunk and Phillip Sober; 4 Does the Doctrine Help Us?; B. Mereological Essentialism; 1 The Principle of Mereological Essentialism; 2 Mereological Inessentialism; 3 Other Possibilities; 4 Principles of Mereology.
- 5 Mereological Change6 The Problem of Increase; C. The Objects of Belief and Endeavour; 1 Introduction; 2 De Dicto Belief and Endeavour; 3 De Re Belief and Endeavour; 4 Belief De Re as a Species of Belief De Dicto; 5 A Note on 'Knowing Who'; 6 Some Interrelations Between De Dicto and De Re; D. Knowledge, Evidence and Reasonable Belief; 1 Epistemic Preferability; 2 The Certain and the Evident; 3 The Directly Evident; 4 Making Evident; 5 Knowledge; E. Summary of Definitions; Notes; Index.