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1 online resource (214 pages) |
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Metaphysical research ; Bd. 1 |
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Metaphysical research ; Bd. 1.
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| Contents |
Warum wir Tiere sind / Eric T. Olson -- The difference that self-consciousness makes / Lynne Rudder Baker -- Some thoughts on animalism / Brian Garrett -- Some objections to animalism / Paul Snowdon -- Biology or psychology? : human persons and personal identity / Kevin J. Corcoran -- Persons and other trope complexes : reflections on ontology and normativity / Käthe Trettin -- Is my head a person? / Michael B. Burke -- Human persons : some conceptual remarks / Klaus Petrus -- Personal identity and the methodology of imaginary cases / Daniel Cohnitz -- Free agents as cause / Daniel von Wachter -- Identität und orientierung / Thomas Spitzley |
| Summary |
There is no question: We are all persons. But what exactly are persons? Are we immaterial souls or Cartesian Egos which only contingently have bodies? Or are persons nothing over and above their bodies? Are they essentially or most fundamentally animals, evolved beings of a certain sort? Or are we something other or more than animals, namely constituted beings with a certain capacity that distinguishes persons from everything else? What is necessary, and what is sufficient, for an entity to be classified or (re- )identified as a person? What's the value of an analysis of such (biological or psy |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Contributions in English and German |
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Print version record |
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Persons.
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Individuality.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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people (agents)
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philosophical anthropology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Individuality
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Persons
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Philosophical anthropology
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Persoon.
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Identiteit.
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Filosofische aspecten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Petrus, Klaus, 1967-
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| ISBN |
9783110324648 |
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3110324644 |
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9783110324396 |
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3110324393 |
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3110324652 |
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9783110324655 |
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