| Real People 'Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments' Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wilkes, Kathleen V. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198240805 ISBN-13: 9780198240808 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $68.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1994 Annotation: This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Psychology |
| Dewey: 155.2 |
| Series: Clarendon Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.47" W x 8.53" (0.71 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science. |