Why we are not what we think we are : a new approach to the nature of personal identity and of time
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Why we are not what we think we are : a new approach to the nature of personal identity and of time
（Studia philosophica et historica, Bd. 6）
Lang, c1987
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Bibliography: p. 107-113
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Description
Questions about personal identity and about time affect us all. The concern for our future and the fear of our death are based on (mostly vague) concepts of personal identity over time. Though the atomic components of our present body are not identical with the ones shown on our childhood photos, we have no doubts in recognizing ourselves on those pictures. Similarly, we are convinced that we will be able to recognize ourselves on our present passport-photos even in the future. Is this confidence justified? If it is not, our conception of life and death would be as faulty as was the image of the universe in the Middle Ages.
Table of Contents
Contents: The difficulties in stating ordinary survival - The temporal unextendedness of the ego - Time: the cone shape of the present in a spacetime-diagram - The Locigal Relativity Principle.
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