Bounds of Agency (eBook)

An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics

Carol Rovane (Autor)

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1997 | 1. Auflage
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2242-3 (ISBN)

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Carol Rovane is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

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The subject of personal identity is one of the most central and most contested and exciting in philosophy. Ever since Locke, psychological and bodily criteria have vied with one another in conflicting accounts of personal identity. Carol Rovane argues that, as things stand, the debate is unresolvable since both sides hold coherent positions that our common sense, she maintains, is conflicted; so any resolution to the debate is bound to be revisionary. She boldly offers such a revisionary theory of personal identity by first inquiring into the nature of persons.Rovane begins with a premise about the distinctive ethical nature of persons to which all substantive ethical doctrines, ranging from Kantian to egoist, can subscribe. From this starting point, she derives two startling metaphysical possibilities: there could be group persons composed of many human beings and muliple persons within a single human being. Her conclusions supports Locke's distinction between persons and human beings, but on altogether new grounds. These grounds lie in her radically normative analysis of the condition of personal identity, as the condition in which a certain normative commitment arises, namely, the commitment to achieve overall rational unity within a rational point of view. It is by virtue of this normative commitment that individual agents can engage one another specifically as persons, and possess the distinctive ethical status of persons.Carol Rovan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.1997
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line drawing
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • After Virtue • Ascription • Bernard Williams • Brute fact • Calculation • Categorical imperative • Categorization • Causality • Concept • Conflation • Consciousness • Consequentialism • Consideration • Contingency (Philosophy) • deed • Definition • Deliberation • Descriptive knowledge • de se • Determination • Disposition • Dualism (philosophy of mind) • eo ipso • Epistemology • essentialism • ethics • Existence • Explanandum • Explanation • Explanatory Gap • FACT • general knowledge • Holism • hypothesis • hypothetical imperative • Identity (philosophy) • Ideology • inference • injunction • Inquiry • intentionality • interdependence • Is–ought problem • Logic • Materialism • Mental property • metaphysical necessity • Modal property • moral imperative • Morality • multiple realizability • Multitude • Mutual knowledge (logic) • narrative • Nominalism • normative • Obligation • Opportunism • paternalism • Person • Personal Identity • Personhood • phenomenon • Platitude • Position of trust • Potentiality and actuality • Practical reason • Prediction • premise • presumption • Principle • Rational Choice Theory • Rationality • Reality • reason • Relativism • Requirement • Respondent • right to property • self-concept • self-consciousness • Self-Interest • Solipsism • Sophistication • Stipulative definition • Suggestion • syllogism • Symptom • Terminology • theory • Theory of Justification • Thought • transcendental arguments • Transitive relation • Understanding • Utilitarianism • Value theory • Virtue Ethics • word and object
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2242-4 / 1400822424
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2242-3 / 9781400822423