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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2010
      December 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511663826
      9780521592666
      9780521061742
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511663826
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.362kg, 184 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.252kg, 184 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    This book is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of the self, personal identity and survival. Its distinctive methodology is one that is phenomenologically descriptive rather than metaphysical and normative. On the basis of this approach Raymond Martin shows that the distinction between self and other is not nearly as fundamental a feature of our so-called egoistic values as has been traditionally thought. He explains how the belief in a self as a fixed, continuous point of observation enters into our experience of ourselves and the world. He also reveals the explosive implications this thesis has for recent debates over personal identity and what matters in survival. This is the first book of analytic philosophy directly on the phenomenology of identity and survival. It builds bridges between analytic and phenomenological traditions and, thus, to open up a new field of investigation.

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    "[Martin's] phenomenological investigation is extremely lucid and compelling, suggestive of new and fruitful ways in which philosophers can approach questions about survival and what matters." D.L.J., Ethics

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