Personal Identity Matters
This article considers whether process philosophy can provide a more promising basis for understanding the closely related problems of persons and personal identity than more traditional or mainstream philosophical approaches. In particular, the article focuses on whether process conceptions of pers...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Process studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-171 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Williams, Bernard 1929-2003
/ Parfit, Derek 1942-2017
/ Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Person
/ Identity
/ Process philosophy
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology TJ Modern history TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This article considers whether process philosophy can provide a more promising basis for understanding the closely related problems of persons and personal identity than more traditional or mainstream philosophical approaches. In particular, the article focuses on whether process conceptions of persons and personal identity provide an approach that offers greater potential for resolving the duplication and fission examples within the literature in this area than the approaches taken by Bernard Williams and Derek Parfit. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5406/21543682.53.2.01 |
