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Personal Ontology: Mystery and its Consequences

Autor Andrew Brenner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 2024
What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? In this book, Andrew Brenner argues that there are principled obstacles to our discovering the answer to this fundamental metaphysical question. The main competing accounts of personal ontology hold that we are either souls (or composites of soul and body), or we are composite physical objects of some sort, but, as Brenner shows, arguments for either of these options can be parodied and transformed into their opposites. Brenner also examines arguments for and against the existence of the self, offers a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios - resurrection, reincarnation, and mind uploading -- and considers whether agnosticism with respect to personal ontology should lead us to agnosticism with respect to the possibility of life after death.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009367073
ISBN-10: 1009367072
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 158 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. Arguments against substance dualism – Part 1; 3. Arguments against substance dualism – Part 2: Pairing problems; 4. Arguments for substance dualism; 5. Interlude: what exactly is the difference between our being immaterial souls and our being composite physical objects?; 6. Non-Self – Part 1: Arguments against our existence; 7. Non-Self – Part 2: The self exists; 8. Personal ontology and life after death – Part 1: Resurrection, Reincarnation; 9. Personal ontology and life after death – Part 2: Mind uploading; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'A welcome contribution to an important debate. It brings light to dark areas and never resorts to easy answers. Its treatment of so-called 'no-self' views is especially valuable.' Eric Olson, University of Sheffield

Descriere

Presents the main competing accounts of personal ontology: that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort.