The philosophy of personal identity can be really exciting to students who are trying to figure out who they are and what they believe. This lesson offers essay topics that will help students think through their personal identities on a philosophical level. ...
Decent Essays Read More The Issue Of Personal Identity The issue of personal identity is one of the most broadly treated problems in the philosophical community. “Who are we?”“Where do we come from?”“What makes us human?” are some of the inquiries that most people face during their ...
What is personal identity? A similar reaction is also noticeable even at the academic level. Many, influenced by the postmodernist talk of "the fall of the self", have sought to show that these questions are unanswerable and therefore irrelevant. There is a trend to convince us that since ...
And while the book opens new avenues for systematic reflection that thoroughly engages the historical material (specifically, the views of influential first millennium Indian and Buddhist philosophers), its solutions to the problem of personal identity and the problem of self-knowledge often shortcut ...
A volume of philosophical studies, centred on problems of personal identity and extending to related topics in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy BAO Williams - CAMBRIDGE - USA 被引量: 491发表: 1973年 Discourse on Metaphysics The first mature synthesis of Leibniz's philosophical opinions ...
The main question of this dissertation is: how do we factually ascribe numerical identity to persons over time? In the first chapter, I show how distinct philosophers assume that what makes us numerically identical over time must coincide with one, or more, elements which preserve our qualitative...
Identity : essays based on Herbert Spencer lectures given in the University of Oxford In this important new collection, six internationally famous contributors--Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, Henry Harris, Michael Ruse, Terence Cave, and Anthony D. Smith--discuss identity from the viewpoints of ...
of a number of essays on the philosophical views of Canadian philosopher Terence Penelhum, with a reply by Penelhum himself. Penelhum's three major philosophical interests are represented: the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of David Hume, and philosophical issues concerning personal identity....
Functionalism, the Brain, and Personal Identity In the last thirty years, advancements made in neurobiology and computer science have profoundly changed the ways in which we conceive and regard ourselves... LH Davis 被引量: 0发表: 2001年 Identity, cause, and mind : philosophical essays / Expand...
Milton, L.: 2004, On the Edge - Embracing Qualitative Enquiry to Re-orient Research on Identity Confirmation in Organizations, presented at the University of Hull, 23rd March, from Academy of Management and ISEOR Conference, Crossing Frontiers in Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods, the ...