THE NATURE OF SUBJECT AND THE ARGUMENT FROM UNITY
In the present work I inspect several answers to the question raised by Descartes: What Am I? I suggest that, although the proposal that I am identical tomy human organism or to some part of it (the thesis embraced by materialists) isthought to be the most plausible in nowadays scientific viewpoint,...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Crítica |
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| Online Access: | http://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1101/1063 |
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| Summary: | In the present work I inspect several answers to the question raised by Descartes: What Am I? I suggest that, although the proposal that I am identical tomy human organism or to some part of it (the thesis embraced by materialists) isthought to be the most plausible in nowadays scientific viewpoint, it faces a problemthat seems intractable, namely: the problem of accounting the identity-dependencebetween mental states and their subjects. Finally, I contend that the genuine bearers of mental states are, in the broad sense of the term, unitary subjects of experience, rather than persons. |
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| ISSN: | 1870-4905 0011-1503 |