Real people personal identity without thought experiments
This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results and that truth is stranger than fiction
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Clarendon
1993, c1988
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results and that truth is stranger than fiction |
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Physical Description: | x, 249 p. ill |
ISBN: | 9780191680281 0191680281 |