Mortal Objects: Identity and Persistence Through Life and Death

ISBN-13: 9781108833721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 212 str.

Steven Luper

Opis

Clarifies what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, what it is to be alive, and the significance of extinction.

Recenzje

'Luper's writing is admirably engaging and unpretentious. He doesn't shrink from tackling the hardest problems about the metaphysics of ourselves and other material things. There's no other book like it.' Eric Olson, University of Sheffield

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Material Objects; 3. Conformism; 4. Organisms; 5. Incregratism; 6. Selves; 7. The Cogito; 8. Living and Dying; 9. Welfare and Nonexistence; 10. What We Can Become; 11. (Re)making Ourselves; 12. The Meaning of Life and Death.