Identity, consciousness, and value / / Peter Unger

• Autore: Unger Peter
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990; ©1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 111.82
• Soggetto topico: Identity (Philosophical concept); Consciousness; Values
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. INVESTIGATING OUR BELIEFS ABOUT OURSELVES: AN INTRODUCTION; 1. Two Hypothetical Examples: A Clear Case of Survival and a Clear Failure of Survival; 2. Three Main Topics: Personal Identity, Conscious Experience and Actual Values; 3. Toward a Sensibly Balanced Methodology; 4. Method and Substance; 5. Two Cartesian Views of Our Survival; 6. Experience Inducers; 7. Two Attempts at Transporting Some Inanimate Objects; 8. Three Attempts at Getting Human People to Survive; 9. The Idea that Our Survival Requires Much Physical Continuity; 10. The Avoidance of Future Great Pain Test ; 11. Some Evidence About Some Strong Beliefs2. CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCES AND SUBJECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: SIX METAPHYSICAL DOCTRINES; 1. The Objective View of Ourselves; 2. Conscious Experience and Subjects of Consciousness: Three Metaphysical Doctrines Concerning Each; 3. Three Competing Views of Ourselves; 4. The Continuity of Consciousness and Physical Division; 5. Continuity of Consciousness Through Rapidly Radical Change; 6. The Explanation of Our Responses to These Examples; 7. Methodology, Continuous Consciousness and Personal Identity ; 8. The Spectrum of Decomposition Versus the Absoluteness of Subjects3. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO OUR SURVIVAL; 1. Core Psychology and Distinctive Psychology; 2. A Formulation of the Psychological Approach; 3. Three Salient Motivations Toward This Approach; 4. Three Subtler Motivations; 5. From Science Fiction to Philosophical Investigation; 6. First-Order Intuitions and Second-Order Intuitions; 7. Other Societies, Other Statements, Other Conditions of Survival; 8. Three Uses of ""What Matters in Survival""; 9. Three Other Objective Approaches; 4. THE PHYSICAL APPROACH TO OUR SURVIVAL ; 1. Two Formulations of the Physical Approach2. A Better Formulation; 3. Wide Physical Continuity and Contextual Flexibility; 4. The Derivative but Great Importance of Physical Continuity; 5. Survival and the Realization of Psychological Capacities; 6. How Important for My Survival Is My Capacity for Life?; 7. Physical Continuity and the Gradual Replacement of Matter; 8. Physical Continuity and Constitutional Cohesion; 9. Physical Continuity and Systemic Energy; 10. Thinking Beings and Unthinking Entities: A Contrast Concerning Survival; 11. Physical Continuity and Physical Complementarity ; 5. A PHYSICALLY BASED APPROACH TO OUR SURVIVAL1. Might Distinctive Psychology Be a Factor in Survival?; 2. Can One Survive Without a Capacity for Consciousness?; 3. Survival and Assimilation; 4. Some Differences in Assimilation for Some Different Kinds of Ordinary Individuals; 5. Assimilation and Disassimilation; 6. Might We Survive Brain Replacements and even Brain Exchanges?; 7. Disassimilation and Double Bisection; 8. Some Strange Doings with Ships; 9. Extrinsicness, Time and Identity; 10. From Strange Ships to Puzzling People: The Hobbesian Personal Case ; 6. PHYSICALLY BASED SUBJECTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES: AGAINST THE SIX METAPHYSICAL DOCTRINES
• Sommario/riassunto: The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting theaccount, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new light on the work of Lewis, Nagel, Nozick, Parfit, Perry, Shoemaker, and others. Deriving from his discussion of our identity itself, Ungerproduces a nov
• Titolo autorizzato: Identity, consciousness, and value
• ISBN: 0-19-972935-2; 1-280-52650-5; 1-4294-0767-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777626303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II