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The survival of the self / Robin Harwood.
LIBRA BF697 .H38 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harwood, Robin.
- Series:
- Avebury series in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Self.
- Personality.
- Mind and body.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, 1998.
- Contents:
- The Mind Body Problem 4
- The Nature of the Self 4
- Self and Mind 5
- The Self is a Simple Entity 6
- Neither its Presence nor its Survival is a Matter of Degree 7
- The Identity of the Self 10
- One Self 11
- 2 The Self from the First Person Point of View 13
- The Distinction Between Self and Mind 13
- Phenomenology of Experience 20
- The Self as the Centre of Agency 21
- Direct Experience of the Self as Consciousness 25
- The Subject of Consciousness 27
- A Defence of Pure Consciousness 30
- 3 Unity of Consciousness 36
- Unity of Consciousness and the Self 37
- Humean Connections 37
- Thoughts of a Higher Order 39
- "Just So" Stories 39
- A Special Case of Unity of Agency? 42
- Unification by the Brain 47
- "Split Brains" and the Unity of Consciousness 47
- Unity of Person 51
- An Adaptation of Broad's Argument 51
- 4 The Continuity of the Self 54
- Foster's Argument that Co-personality Entails Consubjectivity 58
- Unger's Argument for Shared Experience 62
- Our Knowledge of Our Own Continuity 67
- The Self in Sleep 67
- The Argument for the Non-existence of the Self During Deep Sleep or Coma 69
- The Argument for the Existence of the Self During Sleep and Coma 72
- A Summary of the Argument 83
- 5 Survival 84
- A Misguided Approach 84
- The Priority of the First Person Point of View 85
- Ordinary Survival 88
- Extraordinary Survival 95
- Replicas and Survivors 101
- Fake Survival Exposed 103
- Other Criteria: Parfit's Relation R 107
- Other Criteria: Brennan's S-relation 114
- The Appeal of Psychological Connection 117
- Survival and Identity 118
- 6 Fission and Fusion 124
- Fission
- a Metaphysical Possibility? 125
- The Moral Conflict 127
- The Conceivability of Fission 130
- Division of the "Substantive" Self 133
- Division of the Mind 135
- Division and the God's Eye View 144
- Presupposing Reductionism 144
- A Standard Argument Against the Possibility of Fission 145
- Fusion 147
- Dipping a Toe into the Conceptual Quagmire 153
- 6 Fission and Fusion
- A Summary of the Argument 153
- The Balance of Implausibilities 154
- 7 The Physical Criterion for Personal Identity 166
- Why I Cannot Use the Bodily Criterion for an Account of My Own Identity 169
- Psychological Separability: the Body Switching Case 171
- Psychological Separability: Publicly Traceable Reincarnation 175
- Psychological Separability: Disembodiment 178
- Memory and Bodily Continuity 184
- 8 Memory and Self Knowledge 186
- The Argument from Self Recognition 187
- An End to Q-memory? 194.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840143436
- OCLC:
- 40138393
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