Personal identity / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.

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126
Title
Personal identity / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 383 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
Experience, agency, and personal identity / Marya Schechtman -- When does a person begin? / Lynne Rudder Baker -- Persons, social agency, and constitution / Robert A. Wilson -- Hylemorphic dualism / David S. Oderberg -- Personal identity and self-ownership / Edward Feser -- Self-conception and personal identity : revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an eye on the grip of the unity reaction / Marvin Belzer -- The normativity of self-grounded reason / David Copp -- Rationality means being willing to say you're sorry / Jennifer Roback Morse -- Personal identity and postmortem survival / Stephen E. Braude -- 'The thing I am' : personal identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare / John Finnis -- Moral status and personal identity : clones, embryos, and future generations / F.M. Kamm -- The identity of identity : moral and legal aspects of technological self-transformation / Michael H. Shapiro.
Summary
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. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates observed that all of us are constantly undergoing change: we experience physical changes to our bodies, as well as changes in our 'manners, customs, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, [and] fears'. Aristotle theorized that there must be some underlying 'substratum' that remains the same even as we undergo these changes. John Locke rejected Aristotle's view and reformulated the problem of personal identity in his own way: is a person a physical organism that persists through time, or is a person identified by the persistence of psychological states, by memory? 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.
Added Author
Paul, Ellen Frankel, editor.
Miller, Fred Dycus, 1944-, editor.
Paul, Jeffrey, editor.
Subject
SELF (PHILOSOPHY)
IDENTITY (PSYCHOLOGY)
Multimedia
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Summary
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. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates observed that all of us are constantly undergoing change: we experience physical changes to our bodies, as well as changes in our 'manners, customs, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, [and] fears'. Aristotle theorized that there must be some underlying 'substratum' that remains the same even as we undergo these changes. John Locke rejected Aristotle's view and reformulated the problem of personal identity in his own way: is a person a physical organism that persists through time, or is a person identified by the persistence of psychological states, by memory? 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.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
Experience, agency, and personal identity / Marya Schechtman -- When does a person begin? / Lynne Rudder Baker -- Persons, social agency, and constitution / Robert A. Wilson -- Hylemorphic dualism / David S. Oderberg -- Personal identity and self-ownership / Edward Feser -- Self-conception and personal identity : revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an eye on the grip of the unity reaction / Marvin Belzer -- The normativity of self-grounded reason / David Copp -- Rationality means being willing to say you're sorry / Jennifer Roback Morse -- Personal identity and postmortem survival / Stephen E. Braude -- 'The thing I am' : personal identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare / John Finnis -- Moral status and personal identity : clones, embryos, and future generations / F.M. Kamm -- The identity of identity : moral and legal aspects of technological self-transformation / Michael H. Shapiro.
Subject
SELF (PHILOSOPHY)
IDENTITY (PSYCHOLOGY)
Multimedia