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Real People: Personal Identity without Thought Experiments (Clarendon Paperbacks) Book

This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of...Read More

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    This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science.

  • 0198240805
  • 9780198240808
  • Kathleen V. Wilkes
  • 18 November 1993
  • Clarendon Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 264
  • New edition
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