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Locke on personal identity : consciousness and concernment / / Galen Strawson



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Autore: Strawson Galen Visualizza persona
Titolo: Locke on personal identity : consciousness and concernment / / Galen Strawson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Edizione: Updated edition with a New Preface
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina: 126.092
Soggetto topico: Identity (Psychology)
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: StrawsonGalen  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. "Person" -- Chapter Three. "Person . . . is a forensic term" -- Chapter Four. Concernment -- Chapter Five. Consciousness -- Chapter Six. "Consciousness . . . is inseparable from thinking" -- Chapter Seven. "From the inside" -- Chapter Eight. "Person"-Locke's Definition -- Chapter Nine. Consciousness Is Not Memory -- Chapter Ten. Personal Identity -- Chapter Eleven. Psychological Connectedness -- Chapter Twelve. Transition (Butler Dismissed) -- Chapter Thirteen. " But next . . . ": Personal Identity without Substantial Continuity -- Chapter Fourteen. "And therefore . . . ": [I]-transfers, [Ag]-transfers, [P]-transfers -- Chapter Fifteen. "A fatal error of theirs" -- Chapter Sixteen. A Fatal Error of Locke's? -- Chapter Seventeen. Circularity? -- Chapter Eighteen. The Distinction between [P] and [S] -- Chapter Nineteen. Concernment and Repentance -- Chapter Twenty. Conclusion -- Postface -- Appendix One. "Of Identity and Diversity" An Essay concerning Human Understanding / Locke, John -- Appendix Two. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity / Law, Edmund -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves-yet it is widely thought to be wrong. In this book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke's critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid. Indeed, far from refuting Locke, they illustrate his fundamental point. Strawson argues that the root error is to take Locke's use of the word "person" as merely a term for a standard persisting thing, like "human being." In actuality, Locke uses "person" primarily as a forensic or legal term geared specifically to questions about praise and blame, punishment and reward. This point is familiar to some philosophers, but its full consequences have not been worked out, partly because of a further error about what Locke means by the word "conscious." When Locke claims that your personal identity is a matter of the actions that you are conscious of, he means the actions that you experience as your own in some fundamental and immediate manner. Clearly and vigorously argued, this is an important contribution both to the history of philosophy and to the contemporary philosophy of personal identity.
Titolo autorizzato: Locke on personal identity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4008-5184-X
1-283-22746-0
9786613227461
1-4008-4022-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456689503321
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Serie: Princeton monographs in philosophy.