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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Personal identity without thought experiments
1. Verfasser:
Wilkes, Kathleen V.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Clarendon, 1993.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-168028-1
0-19-824080-5
Schlagworte:
Identity (Psychology)
Consciousness.
Psychology, Pathological.
Psychology > Methodology.
Identification (Psychology)
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