Are there nonexistent things? What is the nature of informative identity statements? Are the notions of essential property and of essence intelligible, and, if so, how are they to be understood? Are individual things material substances or clusters of qualities? Can the account …
What does it mean to be 'oneself' or to be 'the same' person? What does being a 'person' or a 'self' mean? What is personal identity? How do these notions relate to ethics? Many, influenced by the postmodernist talk of "the fall of the self", have sought to show that these quest…
"What does it mean to be "oneself" or to be "the same" person? What does being a "person" or a "self" mean? What is personal identity? How do these notions relate to ethics? Many, influenced by the postmodernist talk of "the fall of the self," have sought to show that these ques…
"With his trademark clarity, curiosity and scrpticism, Julian Baggini sets out to answer one of the most fundamental questions in philosophy: what is the self? Is it something solid which remains constant over time? Or something far more elusive? Baggini's quest takes us into th…