The Problem of People and Their Matter
If I am a material thing, there would seem to be such an entity as the matter now making me up. In that case the matter and I must be either one thing or two. This creates an awkward dilemma. If we're one thing, then I have existed for billions of years and I am human only momentarily. But if w...
| Subtitles: | "Essays in Honour of Dean Zimmerman" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
2024
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TheoLogica
Year: 2024, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-19 |
| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B Composition B Dean Zimmerman B Gunk B Dualism |
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| Summary: | If I am a material thing, there would seem to be such an entity as the matter now making me up. In that case the matter and I must be either one thing or two. This creates an awkward dilemma. If we're one thing, then I have existed for billions of years and I am human only momentarily. But if we're two, then my matter would seem to be a second person. Dean Zimmerman and others take the repugnance of these alternatives to show that I'm not a material thing, but rather an immaterial one. This paper explores a way of avoiding the dilemma without giving up materialism: there is no such entity as the matter making me up, but only a lot of particles. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v8i2.81803 |