Person and object : a metaphysical study / / Roderick M. Chisholm

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791185803321
• Autore: Chisholm Roderick M.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-317-85222-2; 1-138-88420-0; 1-315-83022-1; 1-317-85223-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Collana: Muirhead library of philosophy. Metaphysics ; ; 5
• Disciplina: 126
• Soggetti: Personalism; Agent (Philosophy); Self (Philosophy); Object (Philosophy); Metaphysics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 1976 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 An Approach to Philosophy; 2 Philosophical Data; 3 Some Objections Considered; 4 Premature Speculations; 5 A Minimum Philosophical Vocabulary; Chapter I. The Direct Awareness of the Self; 1 A Philosophical Question; 2 Acquaintance: A Preliminary Statement; 3 Self-Presenting States; 4 Direct Acquaintance; 5 Individuation Per Se; 6 The Humean Tradition; 7 The Kantian Considerations; 8 Inner Perception; Chapter II. Agency; 1 'He Could Have Done Otherwise'; 2 Some Unsatisfactory Answers3 A Proposed Solution; 4 Freedom and Indeterminism; 5 The Agent as Cause; 6 A Note on Deliberate Omission; 7 Endeavouring; 8 Purposive Activity; 9 Some Further Philosophical Questions; Chapter III. Identity through Time; 1 The Ship of Theseus; 2 Playing Loose with the 'Is' of Identity; 3 An Interpretation of Bishop Butler's Theses; 4 Feigning Identity; 5 The Persistence of Persons through Time; 6 'Will I Be He?': Truth-Conditions and Criteria; Chapter IV. States of Affairs; 1 Introduction; 2 The Ontology of States of ; Affairs; 3 Some Alternative Conceptions; 4 Propositions5 The Times and Places of States of Affairs; 6 Events; 7 Recurrence; 8 Events as Coming into Being and Passing Away; 9 De Re Explanation; 10 Cause and Effect: De Dicto and De Re; 11 Perception; 12 Particular Occurrences; 13 Individual Things; Appendix; A. The Doctrine of Temporal Parts; 1 Temporal Parts; 2 The Argument from Spatial Analogy; 3 Phillip Drunk and Phillip Sober; 4 Does the Doctrine Help Us?; B. Mereological Essentialism; 1 The Principle of Mereological Essentialism; 2 Mereological Inessentialism; 3 Other Possibilities; 4 Principles of Mereology; 5 Mereological Change6 The Problem of Increase; C. The Objects of Belief and Endeavour; 1 Introduction; 2 De Dicto Belief and Endeavour; 3 De Re Belief and Endeavour; 4 Belief De Re as a Species of Belief De Dicto; 5 A Note on 'Knowing Who'; 6 Some Interrelations Between De Dicto and De Re; D. Knowledge, Evidence and Reasonable Belief; 1 Epistemic Preferability; 2 The Certain and the Evident; 3 The Directly Evident; 4 Making Evident; 5 Knowledge; E. Summary of Definitions; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.