HUMANS, PERSONS AND THOUGHT-EXPERIMENTS
The distinction between humans and persons appears to be a fundamental one for both religion and morality. Nevertheless, it has recently come under fire - not because of any intuitive implausibility, but because its foundation lies in thoughtexperiments, and those have been claimed to be an unaccept...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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ASRSA
1993
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Journal for the study of religion
Year: 1993, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-53 |
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| Summary: | The distinction between humans and persons appears to be a fundamental one for both religion and morality. Nevertheless, it has recently come under fire - not because of any intuitive implausibility, but because its foundation lies in thoughtexperiments, and those have been claimed to be an unacceptable methodology. This paper undertakes to defend the distinction by defending thought-experiments against a number of influential attacks. It is argued that those attacks, whether based in semantics or epistemology, are misguided and are a long way from showing the method of thought-experiment to be a mistaken one. |
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| ISSN: | 2413-3027 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion
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