Personal Identity
by Shoemaker, Nancy; Swinburne, RichardEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-01-08
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
What does it mean to say that this person at this time is 'the same' as that person at an earlier time? If the brain is damaged or the memory lost, how far does a person's identity continue? In this book two eminent philosophers develop very different approaches to the problem.
Author Biography
Syndney Shoemaker is Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University Richard Swinburne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Keele
Table of Contents
| Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory | p. 1 |
| Personal Identity: a Materialist's Account | p. 67 |
| Richard Swinburne's Reply | p. 133 |
| Sydney Shoemaker's Reply | p. 139 |
| Bibliography | p. 153 |
| Index of Names | p. 157 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
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