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Title

Who am I? Who is she? : a naturalistic, holistic, somatic approach to personal identity / Gerard P. Montague.

Author

Montague, Gerard P.

Publication

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2012.

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Description

331 p.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

Naturalistic, holistic, somatic approach to personal identity

Subject

• Person
• Identität
• Naturalismus
• Self (Philosophy)
• Identity (Philosophical concept)
• Self
• Identity (Psychology)
• Naturalism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Quintessence, Aims and Structure -- 1.1. General Introduction -- 1.2. Working Definitions -- 1.3. Who Am I? Who Is She? -- 1.4. Methodological Considerations -- 1.5. Structure of the Argument -- 1.6. Note on Orthography and Typography -- 1.7. Building Arches -- 2. Self and Identity in Historical Context -- 2.1. Origins of Mind, Soul, Self and Identity -- 2.2. Pre-History to Plato -- 2.3. Early Christian Dualism -- 2.4. The Middle Age and the Soul -- 2.5. Renaissance and Reason: Descartes to Locke -- 2.6. Science Intervenes: Darwin to Freud -- 2.7. The Story so Far -- 2.8. General Historical Inferences -- 3. Dualism, Monism and the End of the Debate -- 3.1. Death of the Soul? -- 3.2. Predicate Dualism -- 3.3. Property Dualism and the Mind-Body Problem -- 3.4. The Zombie Debate -- 3.5. Two Classes of Dualism? And Monism? -- 3.6. Perspectives for Mind and Personal Identity -- 4. Body, Brain and Mind -- 4.1. Embodiment -- 4.2. What the Mind Cannot Be -- 4.3. Things, Functions and Processes -- 4.4. Body, Mind and World -- 4.5. What Do We Need the Body to Do? -- 4.6. The Making of the Mind -- 4.7. Conscious and Unconscious Mind -- 4.8. `My' Philosophy of Mind -- 5. Aspects of Personal Identity -- 5.1. Dimensions of the Debate -- 5.2. Conditions of Personhood -- Dimension (A) -- 5.3. Unity of Person -- Dimension (B) -- 5.4. The Meaning of Identity -- 5.5. Persistence of Person -- Dimension (C) -- 5.6. Structure of Personality -- Dimension (D) -- 5.7. The Body in Philosophy -- 5.8. Summing up on Personal Identity -- 6. Some Reductionist Approaches -- 6.1. Aspects of Reductionism -- 6.2. Psychological Continuity and Replication -- 6.3. Body Transplant and the Somatic Aspect -- 6.4. Further Reductionist Discussions -- 6.5. Frankenstein's Monster -- 6.6. Reflections on Reductionist Debate -- 7. Qualitative Aspects of Self and Identity -- 7.1. Introductory Remark -- 7.2. Constitution of the Self -- 7.3. Cultural Aspect of Identity -- 7.4. Relating Self to Other -- 7.5. Memory, Continuity and Identity -- 7.6. Broader Aspects of Memory -- 7.7. Additional Aspects of Continuity -- 7.8. Phenomena of Identity -- 8. The Narrative Approach -- 8.1. Living a Life and Narrating a Life -- 8.2. Narratives as Stories or Plots -- 8.3. Analytic Reconstruction of Narrative -- 8.4. Narrative Approach as Resolution and Solution -- 8.5. Beginning and End of Personal Narrative -- 8.6. From a Narrative Approach to an Ethical Aspect -- 8.7. Questioning Narrativity -- 8.8. From Narrativity to Meaning -- 8.9. Conclusions on Narrative -- 9. Holistic Identity in a Naturalistic World -- 9.1. Naturalistic, Holistic, Somatic Identity -- 9.2. The Core of Personal Identity.

ISBN

9783868381443 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

793573791

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library