The Way Things are: Basic Readings in MetaphysicsThis anthology of classic and contemporary readings addresses the major areas of metaphysical inquiry: personal identity and responsibility; free will and determinism; change and time; existence and non-existence; the mind-body problem; and causal determinism and free will. |
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... continues to exist - as a corpse . If the corpse is located in the Recoleta Cemetery , that is where the famous person is located . It is ( on this conception of the matter ) , then , not true that our lives continue for as long as we ...
... continues to exist - as a corpse . If the corpse is located in the Recoleta Cemetery , that is where the famous person is located . It is ( on this conception of the matter ) , then , not true that our lives continue for as long as we ...
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... continue as well , if personal identity is to continue . Thought - experiments of more ex- travagant kinds rule out this latter possibility . Consider life after death . It seems logically possible that any present person who is cur ...
... continue as well , if personal identity is to continue . Thought - experiments of more ex- travagant kinds rule out this latter possibility . Consider life after death . It seems logically possible that any present person who is cur ...
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... continue to exist without his body , it follows that that person must now actually have a part other than a bodily part which can continue , and which we may call his soul â and so that his possession of it is entailed by his being a ...
... continue to exist without his body , it follows that that person must now actually have a part other than a bodily part which can continue , and which we may call his soul â and so that his possession of it is entailed by his being a ...
Contents
2 | 51 |
Of Identity Thomas Reid | 70 |
Rigid Designation Hugh S Chandler | 76 |
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