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Personal Ontology
Author | : Andrew Brenner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2024-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781009367042 |
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What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? In this book, Andrew Brenner argues that there are principled obstacles to our discovering the answer to this fundamental metaphysical question. The main competing accounts of personal ontology hold that we are either souls (or composites of soul and body), or we are composite physical objects of some sort, but, as Brenner shows, arguments for either of these options can be parodied and transformed into their opposites. Brenner also examines arguments for and against the existence of the self, offers a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios - resurrection, reincarnation, and mind uploading -- and considers whether agnosticism with respect to personal ontology should lead us to agnosticism with respect to the possibility of life after death.
What Are We
Author | : Eric T. Olson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2007-09-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780195176421 |
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Many discussions of personal identity frequently ignore the basic metaphysical nature of human people. 'What Are We?' explains the question's meaning, considers in detail the main possible answers to it, and suggests how the problem might be solved.
Personal Ontology
Author | : Andrew Brenner |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2024-03-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781009367073 |
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Presents the main competing accounts of personal ontology: that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort.
What are We
Author | : Eric Todd Olson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Ontology |
ISBN | : 0199872007 |
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Many discussions of personal identity frequently ignore the basic metaphysical nature of human people. 'What Are We?' explains the question's meaning, considers in detail the main possible answers to it, and suggests how the problem might be solved.
Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology
Author | : Sebastian Luft,Ruth Hagengruber |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783319978611 |
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This edited volume examines women's voices in phenomenology, many of which had a formative impact on the movement but have be kept relatively silent for many years. It features papers that truly extend the canonical scope of phenomenological research. Readers will discover the rich philosophical output of such scholars as Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, and Gerda Walther. They will also come to see how the phenomenological movement allowed its female proponents to achieve a position in the academic world few women could enjoy at the time. The book explores the intersection of social ontology, phenomenology, and women scholars in phenomenology. The papers offer a fresh look at such topics as the nature of communities, shared values, feelings, and other mental content. In addition, coverage examines the contributions of Jewish women to the science, who were present at the beginning of the phenomenological movement. This remarkable anthology also features a paper on Gerda Walther written by Linda Lopez McAlister, former editor of the feminist journal Hypatia, who had met Walther in 1976. This book features work from the conference “Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology,” held at the University of Paderborn. Overall, it collects profiles and analysis that unveil a hidden history of phenomenology.
Contemporary Polish Ontology
Author | : Bartłomiej Skowron |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019-11-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110669411 |
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This book is a collection of articles authored by renowed Polish ontologists living and working in the early part of the 21st century. Harking back to the well-known Polish Lvov-Warsaw School, founded by Kazimierz Twardowski, we try to make our ontological considerations as systematically rigorous and clear as possible – i.e. to the greatest extent feasible, but also no more than the subject under consideration itself allows for. Hence, the papers presented here do not seek to steer clear of methods of inquiry typical of either the formal or the natural sciences: on the contrary, they use such methods wherever possible. At the same time, despite their adherence to rigorous methods, the Polish ontologists included here do not avoid traditional ontological issues, being inspired as they most certainly are by the great masters of Western philosophy – from Plato and Aristotle, through St. Thomas and Leibniz, to Husserl, to name arguably just the most important.
What are We
Author | : Eric T. Olson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:932563802 |
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The Human Animal
Author | : Eric T. Olson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1999-09-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198026471 |
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Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he defends in their place a radically non-psychological account of personal identity. He defines human beings as biological organisms, and claims that no psychological relation is either sufficient or necessary for an organism to persist. Rejecting several famous thought experiments dealing with personal identity, he instead argues that one could survive the destruction of all of one's psychological contents and capabilities as long as the human organism remains alive.