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Intention and identity: Collected 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:
Contents; 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.
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Contents;
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.