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Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?
Edited By Georg Gass
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Description for Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?
hardcover. This book addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of 'complex' and 'simple' theories. Editor(s): Gasser, Georg; Stefan, Matthias. Num Pages: 268 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512. Complex or Simple?. 268 pages. Editor(s): Gasser, Georg; Stefan, Matthias. This book addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of 'complex' and 'simple' theories. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight: 530.
We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that we will carry them out; when we punish someone for a crime, we assume that she is the same person as the one who committed it. Metaphysical questions underlying these assumptions point towards an area of deep existential and philosophical interest. In this volume, leading metaphysicians discuss key questions about personal identity, including 'What are we?', 'How do we persist?', and 'Which conditions guarantee our identity over time?' They discuss whether personal identity is 'complex', whereby it is analyzable in terms of ... Read more
We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that we will carry them out; when we punish someone for a crime, we assume that she is the same person as the one who committed it. Metaphysical questions underlying these assumptions point towards an area of deep existential and philosophical interest. In this volume, leading metaphysicians discuss key questions about personal identity, including 'What are we?', 'How do we persist?', and 'Which conditions guarantee our identity over time?' They discuss whether personal identity is 'complex', whereby it is analyzable in terms of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
268
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107014442
SKU
V9781107014442
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99-18
About Edited By Georg Gass
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.
Reviews for Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?
'Gasser and Stefan's book offers an important and timely discussion of central issues in personal identity. This is an exceptionally fine volume ...' George Lazaroiu, Review of Contemporary Philosophy ...This valuable collection brings together twelve original contributions and one reply by some of the most prominent theorists working on the issue of personal identity.... show the richness and complexity ... Read more