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Real People 'Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments'

Real People 'Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments'

Wilkes, Kathleen V.

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0198240805
ISBN13: 9780198240808
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jan 6 1994
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.47 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
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 of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science.

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