Change and Selves

ISBN-13: 9780198242499 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 168 str.

EDO Pivcevic

Opis

Whenever a thing changes, however slightly, it becomes in some ways unlike what it was. But how it is possible for anything to be both like and unlike itself? The possibility of change is a typically philosophical puzzle to which naturalistic science has no answer. In this book, Pivcevic examines the conditions that make the idea of change intelligible--in particular the connection between the possibility of change and the existence of selves.

Recenzje

'he presents a fairly exhaustive critique of the efforts of monism, pluralism, functionalism, teleology, evolutionary theory and developmentalism to account for change ... a novel, lucid approach to an age-old philosophical problem ... new ground is undoubtedly broken here' Cogito, Sprin 1991

Spis treści

Why Change Rather than Quiescence?; The Breakdown of the Causal Model; Attributive and Existential Change; Changes and Ends; The Idea of Development; Changes and Selves; The Reality of Change; Select Bibliography; Index