Identity, Consciousness, and Value
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10694538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert C Coburn, Peter Unger |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185671 |
| OpenAlex | W2169183144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new light on the work of Lewis, Nagel, Nozick, Parfit, Perry, Shoemaker, and others. Deriving from his discussion of our identity itself, Unger produces a novel but commonsensical theory of the relations between identity and some of our deepest concerns. In a conservative but flexible spirit, he explores the implications of his theory for questions of value and of the good life
Aesthetics · Analytic philosophy · Consciousness · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Psychoanalysis · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology
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Why transhumanists can’t survive the death of their bodies
Parameters of a national biography
Demented patients and the quandaries of identity
Martha Nussbaum and the Foundations of Ethics
Surviving without a Brain
On Intertemporal Selfishness
Identity, Killing, and the Boundaries of Our Existence
Why There Still Are No People
The Concept of Personal Identity
Was I Ever a Fetus
Métaphysique et éthique de la reproduction
Problems with a Constitution Account of Persons
Persons
What Are We?
Personal Identity Without Too Much Science Fiction
The Ethics of Killing
The Significance of Consciousness
The essential moral self
Psychological connectedness and intertemporal choice.
Temporal Phase Pluralism
Why It Does Not Matter What Matters
Doctor, please make me freer
Surviving, to some degree
Cosmopolitanism and the African Renaissance
A case of shared consciousness
Does Division Multiply Desert
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,93 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |