Ayer’s Persons
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2020.vi24.6760Keywords:
Personal identity, body, mind, philosophy of mind, analytic philosophyAbstract
In this contribution, we expound the concept of person that A. J. Ayer developed in The Concept of a Person (1963). The goal of this exposition is twofold: on the one hand, we pretend to show one aspect of Ayer’s philosophy that is not as popular as others of his; and on the other, we attempt to recover a mental experiment that may be interesting for the contemporary debate about the nature of persons.
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Sorensen, Roy A. Thought Experiments, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Baggini, Julian, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And Ninety-nine Other Thought Experiments, Granta Books, 2005.
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