Material Beings

Description

Introduction — The special composition question — Contact, a representative answer to the special composition question — *The general composition question — *What we shall not presuppose — Answers to the special composition question according to which composition occurs when some type of physical bonding occurs — *Answers to the special composition question according to which composition occurs when combinations of various types of physical bonding occur — Extreme answers to the special composition question : Nihilism and Universalism — The proposed answer — Why the proposed answer to the special composition question, radical though it is, does not contradict our ordinary beliefs — The topic of the previous section continued : paraphrase — Unity and thinking — Artifacts — The identities of material objects — Brain transplants — Two problems about personal identity : memory and commissurotomy — The problem of the many and the vagueness of composition — The vagueness of identity.

• Author: Peter van Inwagen
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Published: 1995
• Pages: 316
• ISBN-13: 9780801483066