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Veröffentlichung:	Februar 2008
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9783110326680
EAN-Code:	9783110326680
Verlag:	De Gruyter
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 153 mm / D 35 mm
Gewicht:	823 gr
Seiten:	556
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This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume's metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume's account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one's character that constitutes one's identity; and that sympathy and the passions of pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one's character and one's identity as a person. But also central is one's body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one's body is essential to one's identity is defended at length. Various concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example, neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy and our inferences to other minds.