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Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments
出版Clarendon Press, 1988
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPolitical Science / Security (National & International)Psychology / GeneralPsychology / Personality
ISBN01982495519780198249559
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ppB-AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.