UID:
edocfu_9958354007202883
Format:
1 online resource(512p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110327076
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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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110326680
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110327083
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110327076
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110327076
