
What Are We?
Description
Alles über E-Books | Antworten auf Fragen rund um E-Books, Kopierschutz und Dateiformate finden Sie in unserem Info- & Hilfebereich.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions

Person
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 The Question
- 1.1 What Are We?
- 1.2 Some Answers
- 1.3 'We'
- 1.4 Rephrasing the Question
- 1.5 Must There Be an Answer?
- 1.6 How the Question Differs from Others
- 1.7 Why It Matters
- 2 Animals
- 2.1 Animalism
- 2.2 What Is an Animal?
- 2.3 The Thinking-Animal Problem
- 2.4 Are There Animals?
- 2.5 Can Animals Think?
- 2.6 Too Many Thinkers
- 2.7 Creative Linguistics
- 2.8 Animalism and Our Identity over Time
- 2.9 Further Objections
- 3 Constitution
- 3.1 Material Things Constituted by Animals
- 3.2 The Clay-Modeling Puzzle
- 3.3 The Replacement Puzzle and the Amputation Puzzle
- 3.4 Thinking Animals Again
- 3.5 When Does Constitution Occur?
- 3.6 What Determines Our Boundaries?
- 4 Brains
- 4.1 The Brain View
- 4.2 The Thinking-Brain Problem
- 4.3 The Brain View and Our Identity over Time
- 4.4 Thinking-Subject Minimalism
- 4.5 Direct Involvement
- 4.6 Homunculism
- 5 Temporal Parts
- 5.1 Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter
- 5.2 Temporary Intrinsics
- 5.3 Lumps and Statues
- 5.4 The Problem of Modal Incompatibility
- 5.5 Puzzles of Personal Identity
- 5.6 Thinking Animals and Other Worries
- 5.7 Thinking Stages
- 5.8 The Stage View
- 6 Bundles
- 6.1 Bundle Theories
- 6.2 Traditional Arguments for the Bundle View
- 6.3 Personal Identity and the Bundle View
- 6.4 Can Thoughts Think?
- 6.5 Thinking Animals Once More
- 6.6 Bundles of Universals
- 6.7 The Program View
- 7 Souls
- 7.1 Immaterialism
- 7.2 Traditional Arguments for Immaterialism
- 7.3 The Paradox of Increase
- 7.4 The Cost of Materialism
- 7.5 Objections to Immaterialism
- 7.6 Compound Dualism
- 7.7 Hylomorphism
- 7.8 Simple Materialism
- 8 Nihilism
- 8.1 We Do Not Exist
- 8.2 Is Nihilism Mad?
- 8.3 Is Nihilism Self-Refuting?
- 8.4 Unity and Simplicity
- 8.5 Paraphrase: The Mentalistic Strategy
- 8.6 Paraphrase: The Atomistic Strategy
- 8.7 What It Would Mean If We Did Not Exist
- 9 What Now?
- 9.1 Some Results
- 9.2 Some Opinions
- 9.3 Animalism and the Thinking-Parts Problem
- 9.4 Animalism and the Clay-Modeling Puzzle
- 9.5 Theories of Composition
- 9.6 Composition and What We Are
- 9.7 Brutal Composition
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
System requirements
File format: PDF
Copy-Protection: Adobe-DRM (Digital Rights Management)
System requirements:
- Computer (Windows; MacOS X; Linux): Install the free reader Adobe Digital Editions prior to download (see eBook Help).
- Tablet/smartphone (Android; iOS): Install the free app Adobe Digital Editions or the app PocketBook before downloading (see eBook Help).
- E-reader: Bookeen, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, Tolino and many more (only limited: Kindle).
The file format PDF always displays a book page identically on any hardware. This makes PDF suitable for complex layouts such as those used in textbooks and reference books (images, tables, columns, footnotes). Unfortunately, on the small screens of e-readers or smartphones, PDFs are rather annoying, requiring too much scrolling.
This eBook uses Adobe-DRM, a „hard” copy protection. If the necessary requirements are not met, unfortunately you will not be able to open the eBook. You will therefore need to prepare your reading hardware before downloading.
Please note: We strongly recommend that you authorise using your personal Adobe ID after installation of any reading software.
For more information, see our eBook Help page.