Personal Ontology: Mystery and Its Consequences

by Andrew Brenner

What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? In this book, Andrew Brenner argues that there are principled obstacles to our discovering the answer to this fundamental metaphysical question. The main competing accounts of personal ontology hold that we are either souls (or composites of soul and body), or we are composite physical objects of some sort, but, as Brenner shows, arguments for either of these options can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009367072
• ISBN13: 9781009367073
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"