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Identity, consciousness, and value / / Peter Unger
| Identity, consciousness, and value / / Peter Unger |
| Autore | Unger Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina | 111.82 |
| Soggetto topico |
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Consciousness Values |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-972935-2
1-280-52650-5 1-4294-0767-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451956703321 |
Unger Peter
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| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Identity, consciousness, and value / / Peter Unger
| Identity, consciousness, and value / / Peter Unger |
| Autore | Unger Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina | 111.82 |
| Soggetto topico |
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Consciousness Values |
| ISBN |
0-19-972935-2
1-280-52650-5 1-4294-0767-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777626303321 |
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Unger Peter
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| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Identity, consciousness, and value / / Peter Unger
| Identity, consciousness, and value / / Peter Unger |
| Autore | Unger Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina | 111.82 |
| Soggetto topico |
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Consciousness Values |
| ISBN |
0-19-972935-2
1-280-52650-5 1-4294-0767-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814403703321 |
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Unger Peter
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| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Philosophical Papers [[electronic resource] ] : Volume Two
| Philosophical Papers [[electronic resource] ] : Volume Two |
| Autore | Unger Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
| Disciplina | 191 |
| Soggetto topico | Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-029385-3
0-19-972815-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2; PART I. THREE STUDIES FOR A BOOK THAT WASN'T; 1. There Are No Ordinary Things; 2. I Do Not Exist; 3. Why There Are No People; PART II. MANY MATERIAL MYSTERIES: WITHOUT ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD; 4. The Problem of the Many; 5. The Mental Problems of the Many; 6. The Mystery of the Physical and the Matter of Qualities: A Paper for Professor Shaffer; PART III. DEFENDING AND TRANSCENDING IDENTITY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND VALUE
7. From a Book Symposium on Identity, Consciousness and Value: Precis of the Book, Reply to Sydney Shoemaker, Reply to Peter Strawson, Reply to Richard Swinburne, Reply to Stephen White8. The Survival of the Sentient; PART IV. TRUE CAUSES AND REAL CHOICES: STILL WITHOUT ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD; 9. The Uniqueness in Causation; 10. Impotence and Causal Determinism; 11. Free Will and Scientiphicalism; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453264203321 |
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Unger Peter
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||
| Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Philosophical Papers [[electronic resource] ] : Volume Two
| Philosophical Papers [[electronic resource] ] : Volume Two |
| Autore | Unger Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
| Disciplina | 191 |
| Soggetto topico | Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-19-773126-0
0-19-029385-3 0-19-972815-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2; PART I. THREE STUDIES FOR A BOOK THAT WASN'T; 1. There Are No Ordinary Things; 2. I Do Not Exist; 3. Why There Are No People; PART II. MANY MATERIAL MYSTERIES: WITHOUT ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD; 4. The Problem of the Many; 5. The Mental Problems of the Many; 6. The Mystery of the Physical and the Matter of Qualities: A Paper for Professor Shaffer; PART III. DEFENDING AND TRANSCENDING IDENTITY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND VALUE
7. From a Book Symposium on Identity, Consciousness and Value: Precis of the Book, Reply to Sydney Shoemaker, Reply to Peter Strawson, Reply to Richard Swinburne, Reply to Stephen White8. The Survival of the Sentient; PART IV. TRUE CAUSES AND REAL CHOICES: STILL WITHOUT ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD; 9. The Uniqueness in Causation; 10. Impotence and Causal Determinism; 11. Free Will and Scientiphicalism; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791208103321 |
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Unger Peter
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||
| Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Philosophical Papers [[electronic resource] ] : Volume Two
| Philosophical Papers [[electronic resource] ] : Volume Two |
| Autore | Unger Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
| Disciplina | 191 |
| Soggetto topico | Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-19-773126-0
0-19-029385-3 0-19-972815-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2; PART I. THREE STUDIES FOR A BOOK THAT WASN'T; 1. There Are No Ordinary Things; 2. I Do Not Exist; 3. Why There Are No People; PART II. MANY MATERIAL MYSTERIES: WITHOUT ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD; 4. The Problem of the Many; 5. The Mental Problems of the Many; 6. The Mystery of the Physical and the Matter of Qualities: A Paper for Professor Shaffer; PART III. DEFENDING AND TRANSCENDING IDENTITY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND VALUE
7. From a Book Symposium on Identity, Consciousness and Value: Precis of the Book, Reply to Sydney Shoemaker, Reply to Peter Strawson, Reply to Richard Swinburne, Reply to Stephen White8. The Survival of the Sentient; PART IV. TRUE CAUSES AND REAL CHOICES: STILL WITHOUT ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD; 9. The Uniqueness in Causation; 10. Impotence and Causal Determinism; 11. Free Will and Scientiphicalism; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812503503321 |
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Unger Peter
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| Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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