This is a volume of philosophical studies, centred on problems of personal identity and extending to related topics in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy.
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'This welcome volume contains fifteen papers by Bernard Williams, an especially stimulating and insightful philosopher ... His papers usually are admirably clear, and always reward careful and sustained study.' Journal of Philosophy
'To read only a few pages of [this excellent book] is to get a fine impression of the character, or flavour, of contemporary philosophy. A powerful feel for analogy allows various phenomena in turn (belief, desire, consistency) to be illuminated by considering both their resemblances to, and their differences from contiguous phenomena. There is an impatience with the trivial. And there is a constant sense, as in a Dutch landscape, of how the roads lead beyond the visible horizon. Added to this Williams exhibits on every page a mind of exceptional acuity. I doubt if anyone could read the reflections on immortality entitled 'The Makropulos Case' without a consciousness that his deepest beliefs and feelings were being engaged: engaged and adjusted under the influence of reason. In these pages an ancient promise of philosophy has been kept.' Richard Wollheim, The Listener
'To read only a few pages of [this excellent book] is to get a fine impression of the character, or flavour, of contemporary philosophy. A powerful feel for analogy allows various phenomena in turn (belief, desire, consistency) to be illuminated by considering both their resemblances to, and their differences from contiguous phenomena. There is an impatience with the trivial. And there is a constant sense, as in a Dutch landscape, of how the roads lead beyond the visible horizon. Added to this Williams exhibits on every page a mind of exceptional acuity. I doubt if anyone could read the reflections on immortality entitled 'The Makropulos Case' without a consciousness that his deepest beliefs and feelings were being engaged: engaged and adjusted under the influence of reason. In these pages an ancient promise of philosophy has been kept.' Richard Wollheim, The Listener
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A collection of philosophical studies centered on problems of identity and extending to related topics in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy.
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There is a special problem about personal identity for two reasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indicative neustic, imperative inference, expletive addition, disjunctive command, inconsistent imperatives, reduplication problem, insincere assertion, praemia vitae, rational connexion, categorical desire, agglomeration principle, inconsistent assertions, unseen tree, deliberative question, moral sincerity, basic particulars, extensional interpretation, moral utterances, bodily continuity, best possible reasons, memory claims, assertion sign, causal connexion, token action, first premiss Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Claudia Cardinale, Guy Fawkes, Prime Minister, Miss Beauchamp, Lord Salisbury, President of the United States, Sir Laurence, Mary Smith, Charles Boyer, Kegan Paul, Kingdom of Ends, Philosophical Review, The Clarendon Press New!
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indicative neustic, imperative inference, expletive addition, disjunctive command, inconsistent imperatives, reduplication problem, insincere assertion, praemia vitae, rational connexion, categorical desire, agglomeration principle, inconsistent assertions, unseen tree, deliberative question, moral sincerity, basic particulars, extensional interpretation, moral utterances, bodily continuity, best possible reasons, memory claims, assertion sign, causal connexion, token action, first premiss Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Claudia Cardinale, Guy Fawkes, Prime Minister, Miss Beauchamp, Lord Salisbury, President of the United States, Sir Laurence, Mary Smith, Charles Boyer, Kegan Paul, Kingdom of Ends, Philosophical Review, The Clarendon Press New!
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- The Dissociation Of A Personality: A Biographical Study In Abnormal Psychology by Morton Prince on page 15, page 17, and page 18
- Action, Emotion and Will by Dr Anthony Kenny on page 168, and page 224
- A Materialist Theory of the Mind (International Library of Philosophy) by D.M. Armstrong on page 75
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on page 12
- Ethica Nicomachea (Oxford Classical Texts) by Aristotle on page 89
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- The Possibility of Practical Reason by J. David Velleman on 5 pages
- Personal Identity (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) by Raymond Martin on 5 pages
- Agent-Centered Morality: An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism by George W. Harris on 4 pages
- Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays by Peter Baumann on 4 pages
- Explaining Emotions (Topics in Philosophy; 5) by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty on 4 pages
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