Personal Identity

Language: English

Published by Decent Books, 2000

8186921087 / 9788186921081

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Contents: Foreword/Richard Swinburne. Preface. I. Introduction: 1. The problem. 2. A special problem. II. The traditional approach: 1. Locke and Hume: the memory theorists. 2. Butler and Reid: the intuitionists. 3. Kant and William James. III. The contemporary approach: 1. Criterion. 2. Bernard Williams: bodily continuity. 3. Shoemaker and Wiggins: a preference and a qualification. 4. Derek Parfit: memory with a difference (?). IV. The two criteria: 1. Bodily continuity re-examined. 2. Memory: not an independent criterion. 3. Disembodied persons. 4. More about disembodied persons. V. Concluding estimate: 1. Conflict of criteria and the relevance of problem cases. 2. Must there be an answer? Importance of personal identity. Appendices. Index. "One of the most discussed of current topics in philosophy of mind is the problem of personal identitythe problem of what, if any thing, makes a later person the same person as an earlier person. The book is a rare attempt to analyse the problem in its various aspects and develop a theory by way of answering the questions involved. It divides itself into three parts dealings with (1) the nature and source of the problem; (2) how it has been approached by various philosophers, traditional and contemporary; and (3) what a proper analysis of it will amount to. The theory that eventually issues out of this analysis is that bodily continuity is the primary criterion of personal identity and the claim of memory as the sole, or even primary, criterion is definitively disallowed. The ideas of disembodied existence and survival, which imply and rest upon the primacy of the memory criterion, are shown to be what they are, i.e., intelligible only in a secondary sense. Of special interest to philosophers is the finding that the problem at issue is a problem of criterion and not of defining personal identity and also an interesting and original trichotomy between definition, criterion and necessary condition." (jacket).…

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Title
Personal Identity
Author
P.K. Mohapatra
Publisher
Decent Books
Publication year
2000
Condition
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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8186921087
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9788186921081

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