On Human Persons /

On Human Persons / / ed. by Klaus Petrus.

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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 s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Burke, Michael B.,
Cohnitz, Daniel,
Corcoran, Kevin J.,
Garrett, Brian,
Olson, Eric T.,
Petrus, Klaus,
Rudder Baker, Lynne,
Snowdon, Paul,
Spitzley, Thomas,
Trettin, Käthe,
Wachter, Daniel von,
HerausgeberIn:
Petrus, Klaus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Metaphysical Research , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Warum wir Tiere sind
  • The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes
  • Some Thoughts on Animalism
  • Objections to Animalism
  • Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity
  • Persons and Other Trope Complexes Reflections on Ontology and Normativity
  • Is My Head a Person?
  • Human Persons. Some Conceptual Remarks
  • Personal Identity and the Methodology of Imaginary Cases
  • Free Agents as Cause
  • Identität und Orientierung

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