Personal Identity - Complex Or Simple?

Informationen zum Autor Georg Gasser is a scientific researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck. He is the editor of Personal Identity and Resurrection (2010). Matthias Stefan is a scientific researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck. He has published papers on the ontological commitments of physicalism, personal identity and substance dualism. Klappentext This book addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of 'complex' and 'simple' theories. Zusammenfassung Leading metaphysicians discuss whether personal identity is 'complex'! namely analyzable in terms of simpler relations such as physical or psychological features! or whether it is 'simple'! namely something that cannot be analyzed in terms of more fundamental relations. Their essays will be of interest to a wide readership in metaphysics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Framing the Question: 1. Chitchat on personal identity David Barnett; 2. In search of the simple view Eric T. Olson; 3. Personal identity, indeterminacy, and obligation Ryan Wasserman; 4. Personal identity and its perplexities Harold W. Noonan; Part II. Arguments for and against Simplicity: 5. How to determine which is the true theory of personal identity Richard Swinburne; 6. Against simplicity Sydney Shoemaker; 7. The probable simplicity of personal identity E. J. Lowe; 8. Reply to E. J. Lowe Sydney Shoemaker; 9. The non-descriptive individual nature of conscious beings Martine Nida-Rümelin; Part III. Reconsidering Simplicity: 10. Personal identity: a not-so-simple simple view Lynne Rudder Baker; 11. Is 'person' a sortal term? Christian Kanzian; 12. Materialism, dualism, and 'simple' theories of personal identity Dean Zimmerman; 13. The morphing block and diachronic personal identity Hud Hudson; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Georg Gasser, Georg Stefan Gasser
• Assisted by: Georg Gasser (Editor), Gasser Georg (Editor), Matthias Stefan (Editor), Stefan Matthias (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107538924
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53892-4
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge