The following is quoted from pp. 39-41 of Mark Siderits’s Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington, VT, 2003.) It’s posted here as a supplement to my previous post.
The Reductionist denies that persons ultimately exist, but affirms the existence of such psychological events as pains. Since, Schechtman might assert, […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Response to Reppert re pain
A few weeks ago Victor Reppert posted a response to this earlier post of mine. In this installment, Reppert uses a quotation from C. S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain to make a useful distinction:
But the truth is that the word Pain has two senses which must now be distinguished.
A particular kind of […]
Source Criticism
This is one of the most-visited posts from the predecessor blog to this one (originally posted 01/22/2003)
Source Criticism: A book I’ve had on my desk for the past few months is Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World by Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. With its publication in 1977, Crone and Cook scandalized the world […]
