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Real people : personal identity without thought experiments /

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This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results and that truth is stranger than fiction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilkes, Kathleen V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, ©1988.
Subjects:
Identity (Psychology)
Consciousness.
Consciousness
Identité (Psychologie)
Conscience.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results and that truth is stranger than fiction.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191680281
0191680281