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A Philosophy of Person and Identity
This book discusses the themes of personhood and personal identity. It argues that while there is a metaphysical answer to the question of personal identity, there is no metaphysical answer to the question of what constitutes a person. The author argues against both body-mind dualism and physicalism and also against the idea that there is some metaphysically real category of persons distinct from the category of human beings or human organisms. Instead, the author presents neutral-monist, autopoietic-enactivist kind of metaphysics of the human being, and a relational, and completely human-dependent notion of a person. The tools used in these arguments include conceptual argumentation and emp...
Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations
This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.
Persons and Bodies
A detailed account of the relation between human persons and their bodies.
Solidarity and Justice in Health and Social Care
This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.
Legal Evidence and Proof
As a result of recent scandals concerning evidence and proof in the administration of criminal justice - ranging from innocent people on death row in the United States to misuse of statistics leading to wrongful convictions in The Netherlands and elsewhere - inquiries into the logic of evidence and proof have taken on a new urgency both in an academic and practical sense. This study presents a broad perspective on logic by focusing on inference not just in isolation but as embedded in contexts of procedure and investigation. With special attention being paid to recent developments in Artificial Intelligence and the Law, specifically related to evidentiary reasoning, this book provides clarification of problems of logic and argumentation in relation to evidence and proof. As the vast majority of legal conflicts relate to contested facts, rather than contested law, this volume concerning facts as prime determinants of legal decisions presents an important contribution to the field for both scholars and practitioners.
Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2
What is a person? What makes me the same person today that I was yesterday or will be tomorrow? Philosophers have long pondered these questions. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates observed that all of us are constantly undergoing change: we experience physical changes to our bodies, as well as changes in our 'manners, customs, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, [and] fears'. Aristotle theorized that there must be some underlying 'substratum' that remains the same even as we undergo these changes. John Locke rejected Aristotle's view and reformulated the problem of personal identity in his own way: is a person a physical organism that persists through time, or is a person identified by the persistence of psychological states, by memory? These essays - written by prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists - offer valuable insights into the nature of personal identity and its implications for morality and public policy.
En liefde in mindere mate
Tussen 1961 en 2012 hield Doeschka Meijsing een dagboek bij. Daarin deed ze verslag van haar vriendschappen en verliefdheden, van de reizen die ze maakte en de boeken die ze las, van de ruzies die ze uitvocht en de depressies waaraan ze leed. Al in 1962 – ze was toen vijftien – noteerde ze dat ze aan een roman werkte, en nog voordat ze bij Querido zou debuteren tekende ze in haar dagboek aan: ‘Ze kunnen allemaal zeggen dat ik niet kan schrijven, dat ik somber ben en fatalistisch, dat ik helemaal niet gelukkig wíl zijn, dat ik lelijk ben, goedkoop, banaal... Ik blijf standhouden. Ik zal standhouden, het schrijven en de liefde, maar misschien het laatste minder.’ Gedurende de eerste j...
The Promise of Evolutionary Epistemology
Because the human cognitive system is the product of an evolutionary process, we may expect that for its understanding an evolutionary perspective may be helpful. This collection argues that the analysis of such different domains as perception, self-identity, human rationality, and culture does indeed profit from an evolutionary approach. However, before the evolutionary project gets started, evolutionary epistemology faces a number of charges: incoherence, irrelevance, mental suicide, circularity, including Stich's charge that the evolutionary argument in favor of the reliability and rationality of our everyday knowledge is based mainly on false premises. This book answers these charges.
