"Papers ... delivered at the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on 'Human Beings' which was held at St. David's University College, Lampeter in July 1990"--Introd.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272) and index.
Contents
Machines as persons? / Christopher Cherry, Oswald Hanfling -- The importance of being human / Cora Diamond, David McNaughton -- Real selves : persons as a substantial kind / E. J. Lowe -- Personal identity and brain transplants / P. F. Snowdon -- Personal identity and the idea of a human being / Geoffrey Madell -- Imagination and the sense of identity / Lars Hertzberg -- Radical
critique, scepticism and commonsense / Raimond Gaita -- Getting the subject back into the world : Heidegger's version / Fergus Kerr -- Incarnational anthropology / John Haldane -- How many selves make me? / Stephen R. L. Clark, Kathleen V. Wilkes -- Sartre and our identity as individuals / Ihlam Dilman.