Mind-body Identity Theories
Mind-body Identity Theories

Author: Cynthia Macdonald

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Believing that mind-body theories will offer a unified account of mind in its relation to body, Cynthia Macdonald traces the complex history of this theory and focuses on the different arguments of J.J.C. Smart and David Lewis among others.

Are We Bodies Or Souls?
Are We Bodies Or Souls?

Author: Richard Swinburne

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0198831498

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What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new. Swinburne thus argues that we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains. Sensations, thoughts, and intentions are conscious events in our souls that cause events in our brains. While scientists might discover some of the laws of nature that determine conscious events and brain events, each person's soul is an individual thing and this is what ultimately makes us who we are.

Materialism and the Mind-body Problem
Materialism and the Mind-body Problem

Author: David M. Rosenthal

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780872204782

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Expanded and updated to include a wide range of classic and contemporary works, this new edition of David Rosenthal's anthology provides a selection of the most important and influential writings on materialism and the mind-body problem.

Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality
Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

Author: Logi Gunnarsson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-11

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1135212813

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As witnessed by recent films such as Fight Club and Identity, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality—a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and psychological treatises, self-help books, biographies, and fiction. He develops an original account of personal identity (the authorial correlate theory) and offers a provocative interpretation of multiple personality: in brief, "multiples" are right about the metaphysics but wrong about the facts.