Personal Identity

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-521-61767-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 583 g

Reihe: Social Philosophy and Policy

What is a person? What makes me the same person today that I was yesterday or will be tomorrow? Philosophers have long pondered these questions. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates observed that all of us are constantly undergoing change: we experience physical changes to our bodies, as well as changes in our 'manners, customs, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, [and] fears'. Aristotle theorized that there must be some underlying 'substratum' that remains the same even as we undergo these changes. John Locke rejected Aristotle's view and reformulated the problem of personal identity in his own way: is a person a physical organism that persists through time, or is a person identified by the persistence of psychological states, by memory? These essays - written by prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists - offer valuable insights into the nature of personal identity and its implications for morality and public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paul, Ellen Frankel

Miller, Fred D. Jr.

Paul, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Experience, agency, and personal identity Marya Schechtman; 2. When does a person begin? Lynne Rudder Baker; 3. Persons, social agency, and constitution Robert A. Wilson; 4. Hylemorphic dualism David S. Oderberg; 5. Personal identity and self-ownership Edward Feser; 6. Self-conception and personal identity: revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an eye on the grip of the unity reaction Marvin Belzer; 7. The normativity of self-grounded reason David Copp; 8. Rationality means being willing to say you're sorry Jennifer Roback Morse; 9. Personal identity and postmortem survival Stephen E. Braude; 10. 'The thing I am': personal identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare John Finnis; 11. Moral status and personal identity: clones, embryos, and future generations F. M. Kamm; 12. The identity of identity: moral and legal aspects of technological self-transformation Michael H. Shapiro.

Über Autor(innen)

Miller, Fred D. Jr.
Fred D. Miller, Jr. is Executive Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.

Paul, Ellen Frankel
Ellen Frankel Paul is Deputy Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University.

Paul, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Paul is Associate Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.