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Author(s): Gasser, Georg;Stefan, Matthias
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Year: 2015
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ISBN 10: 1107538920

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Author: Georg Gasser, Matthias Stefan

We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that we will carry them out; when we punish someone for a crime, we assume that she is the same person as the one who committed it. Metaphysical questions underlying these assumptions point towards an area of deep existential and philosophical interest. In this volume, leading metaphysicians discuss key questions about personal identity, including “What are we?”, “How do we persist?”, and “Which conditions guarantee our identity over time?” They discuss whether personal identity is “complex”, whereby it is analyzable in terms of simpler relations such as physical or psychological features, or whether it is “simple”, namely something that cannot be analyzed in terms of more fundamental relations. Their essays offer an innovative discussion of this topic and will be of interest to a wide readership in metaphysics.
• Assesses the arguments offered in favor of and against the analyzability of personal identity
• Innovative discussion of “complex” and “simple” theories about the nature of personal identity
• Contains several articles providing a detailed and critical evaluation of the “simple view”

Personal identity complex or simple First Paperback 1st  Table of contents:

 

PART I: Framing the Question

CHAPTER 1 Chitchat on Personal Identity

CHAPTER 2 In Search of the Simple View

Simple and Complex Views

Preliminaries

Grounding and Criteria

Anti-Criterialism

Analyzability

Advocates of Analytic Criterialism

Empiricist Theories

Bruteness

Noonan’s Proposal

Specific and Unspecific

Explanatory Demands

CHAPTER 3 Personal Identity, Indeterminacy, and Obligation

Personal Identity and Indeterminacy

Indeterminacy and Obligation

Indeterminacy and Moral Dilemmas

Objections to Epistemicism

Indeterminacy and Subjectivism

CHAPTER 4 Personal Identity and Its Perplexities

The Problem of Personal Identity

The Distinction Between the Simple and the Complex View of Diachronic Personal Identity

The Indexicality of the Concept of a Person

The Complex View and Indeterminacy

PART II: Arguments for and Against Simplicity

CHAPTER 5 How to Determine Which is the True

The Problem

Logical Possibility

A Posteriori Metaphysical Possibility

The Human Soul

CHAPTER 6 Against Simplicity

CHAPTER 7 The Probable Simplicity of Personal Identity

Why Should We Seek a Criterion of Personal Identity?

Identity from a Logical Point of View

What is a Person?

Locke’s Criterion of Personal Identity

The Fatal Circularity in Any Neo-Lockean Criterion

Reply to an Objection

CHAPTER 8 Reply to E. J. Lowe

CHAPTER 9 The Non-Descriptive Individual Nature of Conscious Beings

The Constitutional Basis and Metaphysical Bases of an Individual’s Existence

Non-Descriptive Constitutional Basis for an Individual’s Existence

The Individual Nature of a Stone

Perfect Counterparts of Conscious Individuals

The Central Conceptual Disanalogy

Clarifications of the Conceptual Disanalogy Claim

The Constitutional Basis of the Existence of Conscious Individuals

Implicit Concepts and Philosophical Insights

Access to the Nature of Conscious Beings on the Basis of Being a Conscious Being

PART III: Reconsidering Simplicity

CHAPTER 10 Personal Identity: A Not-So-Simple Simple View

What is a Simple View of Personal Identity?

A First-Personal Approach

Why Not-So-Simple?

Do Persons Have Parts?

Why There Are No Informative Criteria of Personal Identity

Objections and Replies

Conclusion

CHAPTER 11 Is “Person” a Sortal Term?

Introductory Remarks

“Person” is a Sortal Term

The Don’t Care View

“Person” is a Semantically Unique Term

The Kind of Persons

The Individual Form of Persons

The Unity-of-Consciousness Argument

CHAPTER 12 Materialism, Dualism, and “Simple” Theories of Personal Identity

“Complex” and “Simple” Theories of Personal Identity

Two Doctrines of the Supervenience of Personal Identity upon the Impersonal

Reasons to Deny (GR*)

Two Thought Experiments:

Fission

Fuzziness

Fission and Fuzziness vs. Supervenience upon the Impersonal

Fission Argument for Dualism

Fuzziness Argument for Dualism

Persons as Entirely Material but “Emergent”

Holistic Causation to the Rescue?

Fissioning Simples and Premise 2 of the Fission Argument for Dualism

Simple Fission

Loose Ends and Confessions

CHAPTER 13 The Morphing Block and Diachronic Personal Identity

The Criterion of Diachronic Personal Identity

Two Complex Views of Diachronic Personal Identity

Five Theories of Time

The Morphing Block Theory

Curious Consequences of Morphing

Severity and Skepticism

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