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Title: The Persistence of Persons
Condition: New
Subtitle: Studies in the Metaphysics of Personal Identity Over Time
Author: Valerio Buonomo
Contributor: Valerio Buonomo (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 3868385894
EAN: 9783868385892
ISBN: 9783868385892
Publisher: Editiones Scholasticae
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 30/11/2017
Description: We ordinarily believe that the inhabitants of the world – including ourselves – persist over time. Such an idea, however, has puzzled philosophers for centuries. How can we change and still be the same? More specifically, is there any constitutive condition of our identity over time? And if so, does this condition involve mental aspects (such as memories, believes, experiences, etc.), physical aspects (such as the body, or the continuity of the organism), or something else? Or is rather personal identity primitive and unanalyzable, so that our persistence is nothing but a brute fact? This volume is a collection of new essays from leading figures in the field analyzing the persistence of persons and the criteria of personal identity over time. It presents an extensive discussion of the most relevant views on personal identity in contemporary metaphysics and provides new treatments of the constitutive conditions of personal persistence.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 476g
Release Year: 2017

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