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The Identities of Persons
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Amélie Rorty
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1976-11-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it
Identity, Personal Identity and the Self
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: John Perry
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-06-15 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

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This volume collects a number of Perry’s classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity,Persons and Information,Self
Persons and Personal Identity
Language: en
Pages: 118
Authors: Amy Kind
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-02 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities ar
Holding and Letting Go
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Hilde Lindemann
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book explores the social practice of holding each other in our identities, beginning with pregnancy and on through the life span. Lindemann argues that our
Reasons and Persons
Language: en
Pages: 880
Authors: Derek Parfit
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-23 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we
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