Petrus On Human Persons

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032464-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 214 Seiten

Reihe: Metaphysical Research

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 something other or more than animals, namely constituted beings with a certain capacity that distinguishes persons from everything else? What is necessary, and what is sufficient, for an entity to be classified or (re-)identified as a person? What's the value of an analysis of such (biological or psychological) conditions? What does it contribute to our understanding of ourselves as free agents or as beings wanting to live their individual live? The essays collected in this anthology try to answer these questions. They are primarily concerned with the metaphysics of persons and the criteria of personal identity, but also touch on problems of the theory of action and of practical philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrus, Klaus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Contributors;7
3;Preface;8
4;Eric T. Olson Warum wir Tiere sind*;11
5;Lynne Rudder Baker The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes;23
6;Brian Garrett Some Thoughts on Animalism*;41
7;Paul Snowdon Objections to Animalism;46
8;Kevin J. Corcoran Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity;67
9;Käthe Trettin Persons and Other Trope Complexes Reflections on Ontology and Normativity;89
10;Michael B. Burke Is My Head a Person?;107
11;Klaus Petrus Human Persons Some Conceptual Remarks;127
12;Daniel Cohnitz Personal Identity and the Methodology of Imaginary Cases1;145
13;Daniel von Wachter Free Agents as Cause;183
14;Thomas Spitzley Identität und Orientierung;194
15;Blank Page;106