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Identity, Consciousness and Value.

The topic of personal identity has prompted lively debates in recent philosophy. In a contribution to the discussion, the author of this treatise presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Unger, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a The topic of personal identity has prompted lively debates in recent philosophy. In a contribution to the discussion, the author of this treatise presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. 
505 0 |a 1. INVESTIGATING OUR BELIEFS ABOUT OURSELVES: AN INTRODUCTION -- 1. Two Hypothetical Examples: A Clear Case of Survival and a Clear Failure of Survival -- 2. Three Main Topics: Personal Identity, Conscious Experience and Actual Values -- 3. Toward a Sensibly Balanced Methodology -- 4. Method and Substance -- 5. Two Cartesian Views of Our Survival -- 6. Experience Inducers -- 7. Two Attempts at Transporting Some Inanimate Objects -- 8. Three Attempts at Getting Human People to Survive -- 9. The Idea that Our Survival Requires Much Physical Continuity. 
505 8 |a 10. The Avoidance of Future Great Pain Test -- 11. Some Evidence About Some Strong Beliefs -- 2. CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCES AND SUBJECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: SIX METAPHYSICAL DOCTRINES -- 1. The Objective View of Ourselves -- 2. Conscious Experience and Subjects of Consciousness: Three Metaphysical Doctrines Concerning Each -- 3. Three Competing Views of Ourselves -- 4. The Continuity of Consciousness and Physical Division -- 5. Continuity of Consciousness Through Rapidly Radical Change -- 6. The Explanation of Our Responses to These Examples. 
505 8 |a 7. Methodology, Continuous Consciousness and Personal Identity -- 8. The Spectrum of Decomposition Versus the Absoluteness of Subjects -- 3. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO OUR SURVIVAL -- 1. Core Psychology and Distinctive Psychology -- 2. A Formulation of the Psychological Approach -- 3. Three Salient Motivations Toward This Approach -- 4. Three Subtler Motivations -- 5. From Science Fiction to Philosophical Investigation -- 6. First-Order Intuitions and Second-Order Intuitions -- 7. Other Societies, Other Statements, Other Conditions of Survival -- 8. Three Uses of ""What Matters in Survival"" 
505 8 |a 9. Three Other Objective Approaches -- 4. THE PHYSICAL APPROACH TO OUR SURVIVAL -- 1. Two Formulations of the Physical Approach -- 2. A Better Formulation -- 3. Wide Physical Continuity and Contextual Flexibility -- 4. The Derivative but Great Importance of Physical Continuity -- 5. Survival and the Realization of Psychological Capacities -- 6. How Important for My Survival Is My Capacity for Life? -- 7. Physical Continuity and the Gradual Replacement of Matter -- 8. Physical Continuity and Constitutional Cohesion -- 9. Physical Continuity and Systemic Energy. 
505 8 |a 10. Thinking Beings and Unthinking Entities: A Contrast Concerning Survival -- 11. Physical Continuity and Physical Complementarity -- 5. A PHYSICALLY BASED APPROACH TO OUR SURVIVAL -- 1. Might Distinctive Psychology Be a Factor in Survival? -- 2. Can One Survive Without a Capacity for Consciousness? -- 3. Survival and Assimilation -- 4. Some Differences in Assimilation for Some Different Kinds of Ordinary Individuals -- 5. Assimilation and Disassimilation -- 6. Might We Survive Brain Replacements and even Brain Exchanges? -- 7. Disassimilation and Double Bisection. 
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