UID:
almahu_9949473979302882
Format:
1 online resource (512 p.)
ISBN:
9783110327076
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 22
Content:
This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume's metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume's account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one's character that constitutes one's identity; and that sympathy and the passions of pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one's character and one's identity as a person. But also central is one's body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one's body is essential to one's identity is defended at length. Various concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example, neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy and our inferences to other minds.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgments --
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Note --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction --
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Endnotes to Introduction --
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Chapter One: Self as Substance --
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Chapter Two: Nominalism and Acquaintance --
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Chapter Three: From the Substance Tradition through Locke to Hume: Ordinary Things and Critical Realism --
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Chapter Four: The Disappearance of the Simple Self: Its Problems --
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Chapter Five: Hume's Positive Account of the Self --
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Bibliography --
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Index of Names --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Philosophy 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238488
In:
DGBA Philosophy 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636949
In:
eBook Package De Gruyter Ontos 2002-2012, De Gruyter, 9783110331226
In:
eBook Paket De Gruyter Ontos 2002-2012, De Gruyter, 9783110331219
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110326680
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110327076
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110327076
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110327076