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Intention and identityCollected essays: Volume II

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Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011Description: 303p XIISBN:
  • 9780199580064
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.112 FIN - II
Contents:
Table of Contents: Front Matter Title Pages PREFACE List of Abbreviations The Cover Picture Introduction Part One Nature and Freedom in Personal Identity 1 The Priority of Persons 2 Personal Identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare 3 Anscombe on Spirit and Intention Part Two Group Identity and Group Acts 4 Purposes, Public Acts, and Personification 5 Persons and Their Associations 6 Law, Universality, and Social Identity 7 Cosmopolis, Nation States, and Families Part Three Acts and Intentions 8 Human Acts 9 Intentions and Objects 10 Intention and Side Effects 11 Intention in Tort Law 12 Conditional and Preparatory Intentions 13 ‘Direct’ and ‘Indirect’ in Action 14 Intention in Direct Discrimination Part Four Persons Beginning and Dying 15 Organic Unity, Brain Life, and Our Beginning 16 When Most People Begin 17 On Producing Human Embryos 18 Brain Death and Peter Singer 19 Intentionally Killing the ‘Permanently Unconscious’ End Matter BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF JOHN FINNIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX
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Table of Contents:
Front Matter
Title Pages
PREFACE
List of Abbreviations
The Cover Picture
Introduction
Part One Nature and Freedom in Personal Identity
1 The Priority of Persons
2 Personal Identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare
3 Anscombe on Spirit and Intention
Part Two Group Identity and Group Acts
4 Purposes, Public Acts, and Personification
5 Persons and Their Associations
6 Law, Universality, and Social Identity
7 Cosmopolis, Nation States, and Families
Part Three Acts and Intentions
8 Human Acts
9 Intentions and Objects
10 Intention and Side Effects
11 Intention in Tort Law
12 Conditional and Preparatory Intentions
13 ‘Direct’ and ‘Indirect’ in Action
14 Intention in Direct Discrimination
Part Four Persons Beginning and Dying
15 Organic Unity, Brain Life, and Our Beginning
16 When Most People Begin
17 On Producing Human Embryos
18 Brain Death and Peter Singer
19 Intentionally Killing the ‘Permanently Unconscious’
End Matter
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF JOHN FINNIS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX