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Informationen zum Autor Ellen Frankel Paul is Deputy Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. Fred D. Miller, Jr. is Executive Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. Jeffrey Paul is Associate Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. Klappentext What is a person? What makes me the same person today that I was yesterday or will be tomorrow? Philosophers have long pondered these questions. These essays - written by prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists - offer valuable insights into the nature of personal identity and its implications for morality and public policy. Zusammenfassung In this collection! first published in 2005! twelve prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists offer valuable insights into the nature of personal identity and its implications for morality and public policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Experience, agency, and personal identity Marya Schechtman; 2. When does a person begin? Lynne Rudder Baker; 3. Persons, social agency, and constitution Robert A. Wilson; 4. Hylemorphic dualism David S. Oderberg; 5. Personal identity and self-ownership Edward Feser; 6. Self-conception and personal identity: revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an eye on the grip of the unity reaction Marvin Belzer; 7. The normativity of self-grounded reason David Copp; 8. Rationality means being willing to say you're sorry Jennifer Roback Morse; 9. Personal identity and postmortem survival Stephen E. Braude; 10. 'The thing I am': personal identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare John Finnis; 11. Moral status and personal identity: clones, embryos, and future generations F. M. Kamm; 12. The identity of identity: moral and legal aspects of technological self-transformation Michael H. Shapiro....
