Cover Image

Identity and Personhood Confusions and Clarifications across Disciplines /

This book approaches the concept of identity from both logical-linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives, and explores its implications for our understanding of who or what we persons really are. In the process, it bridges disciplines that often remain disconnected - most notably analytic philosoph...

Full description

Main Author: Splitter, Laurance J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Subjects:
Education—Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Educational Philosophy.
Philosophy of Education.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-481-8
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 The formal home of identity: mathematics and logic
  • Chapter 3 Identity in the world of objects and their kinds
  • Chapter 4 Natural kinds and identity
  • Chapter 5 Who or what am I?
  • Chapter 6 The world of persons and the Principle of Personal Worth I
  • Chapter 7 Religions, nations, cultures, traditions, roles and other supra-persons: The Principle of Personal Worth II
  • Chapter 8 Identity, personhood and education.

Similar Items