Identity, consciousness, and value /

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Author / Creator:Unger, Peter K.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Description:xiv, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1024872
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ISBN:0195054016 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Investigating Our Beliefs About Ourselves: An Introduction
  • 2. Conscious Experiences and Subjects of Consciousness: Six Metaphysical Doctrines
  • 3. The Psychological Approach to Our Survival
  • 4. The Physical Approach to Our Survival
  • 5. A Physically Based Approach to Our Survival
  • 6. Physically Based Subjects and Their Experiences: Against the Six Metaphysical Doctrines
  • 7. What Matters in Our Survival: Distinctions, Compromises and Limits
  • 8. Fission and the Focus of One's Life
  • Appendix: Toward Greater Realism in Personal Branching
  • 9. The Appreciation of Our Actual Values
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index