Thought Experiments and Personal Identity
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No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<span>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 o
"As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive having all of our memories erased and replac
This volume collects a number of Perryβs classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity, Persons and Information,Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perryβs Introduction puts his own work and that of others on the issues of identity and per