Real People 'Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments' (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198240808)

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.

Author: Kathleen V. Wilkes
ISBN-10: 0198240805
ISBN-13: 9780198240808
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 01/06/1994
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.47w x 0.58d