Persons and Personal Identity

by Amy Kind

Book Overview

As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive having all of our memories erased and replaced with false ones? What about if our bodies were destroyed and our brains were transplanted into android bodies, or if instead our minds were simply uploaded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745654320
• ISBN13: 9780745654324
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"