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Author : Jörg Noller
Release : 2021-09-23
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 392/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Unity of a Person by : Jörg Noller
Download or read book The Unity of a Person written by Jörg Noller. This book was released on 2021-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong collection on a perennial topic in philosophy Distinctive in bringing together three approaches to personal identity: metaphysical, phenomenological and social
Author : Jörg Noller
Release : 2021-09-23
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 457/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Unity of a Person by : Jörg Noller
Download or read book The Unity of a Person written by Jörg Noller. This book was released on 2021-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes personhood? How are persons and their bodies related? What is the relationship between personhood and value? The Unity of a Person: Philosophical Perspectives explores the current debates surrounding the philosophy of personal identity and offers a fresh approach to this important topic. It is original in bringing together three approaches to personal identity that are traditionally treated separately: the metaphysical, the phenomenological and the social. By examining these three areas this volume establishes connections between the underlying metaphysical issues surrounding personal identity and the specific forms of personal existence such as self-consciousness, action, and normativity. Topics discussed include personhood and animalism, process ontology, self-identity over time, sociality and personhood, and the normative status of personhood. With chapters by an outstanding international roster of contributors, this collection will be of great interest to those studying personal identity and the nature of the self in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and phenomenology.
Author : Marya Schechtman
Release : 2014-03-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 784/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Staying Alive by : Marya Schechtman
Download or read book Staying Alive written by Marya Schechtman. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions. Family life, friendships, institutions of justice, and systems of compensation all rely on our ability to reidentify people. It is not as obvious as it might at first appear just how to express this relation between facts about personal identity and practical interests in a philosophical account of personal identity. A natural thought is that whatever relation is proposed as the one which constitutes the sameness of a person must be important to us in just the way identity is. This simple understanding of the connection between personal identity and practical concerns has serious difficulties, however. One is that the relations that underlie our practical judgments do not seem suited to providing a metaphysical account of the basic, literal continuation of an entity. Another is that the practical interests we associate with identity are many and varied and it seems impossible that a single relation could simultaneously capture what is necessary and sufficient for all of them. Staying Alive offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests which allows us to overcome these difficulties and to offer a view in which the most basic and literal facts about personal identity are inherently connected to practical concerns. This account, the 'Person Life View', sees persons as unified loci of practical interaction, and defines the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life made up of dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, and social attributes and functions mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.
Author : Jörg Noller
Release : 2021-09-24
Genre : Identity (Philosophical concept)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Unity of a Person by : Jörg Noller
Download or read book The Unity of a Person written by Jörg Noller. This book was released on 2021-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes personhood? How are persons and their bodies related? What is the relationship between personhood and value? The Unity of a Person: Philosophical Perspectives explores the current debates surrounding the philosophy of personal identity and offers a fresh approach to this important topic. It is original in bringing together three approaches to personal identity that are traditionally treated separately: the metaphysical, the phenomenological and the social. By examining these three areas this volume establishes connections between the underlying metaphysical issues surrounding personal identity and the specific forms of personal existence such as self-consciousness, action, and normativity. Topics discussed include personhood and animalism, process ontology, self-identity over time, sociality and personhood, and the normative status of personhood. With chapters by an outstanding international roster of contributors, this collection will be of great interest to those studying personal identity and the nature of the self in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and phenomenology.
Author : Etienne Gilson
Release : 1999
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Unity of Philosophical Experience by : Etienne Gilson
Download or read book The Unity of Philosophical Experience written by Etienne Gilson. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.
