What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology

Name: What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology
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ISBN: 9780195176421

ISBN-10: 0195176421

ISBN-13: 9780195176421

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eric T. Olson

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From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you. The result of this neglect has been centuries of wild proposals and clashing intuitions. What Are We? is the first general study of this important question. It beings by explaining what the question means and how it differs from others, such as questions of personal identity and the mind-body problem. It then examines in some depth the main possible accounts of our metaphysical nature, detailing both their theoretical virtues and the often…

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.42" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




The Question



Animals



Constitution



Brains



Temporal Parts



Bundles



Souls



Nihilism



What Now?