Identity, Consciousness and Value.

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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.
Temas:
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Consciousness.
Values.
Consciousness
Identité.
Conscience.
identity.
Values
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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""
  • 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.
  • 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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