This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science.
| Autorius: | Kathleen V. Wilkes |
| Leidėjas: | OUP Oxford |
| Išleidimo metai: | 1993 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 260 |
| ISBN-10: | 0198240805 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780198240808 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge |
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