著者

浪岡 淳

出版者

日本科学哲学会

雑誌

科学哲学 (ISSN:02893428)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.43-55, 2002-05-25 (Released:2009-05-29)

参考文献数

19

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Is the concept of "person" a substance-concept (i.e. a sortal which determines the primitive mode of being for the entities falling under it), or a phased-sortal (a sortal such that its instance need not fall under it throughout its existence)? Recently some philosophers opposing to the traditional view maintain that we are not always persons and that what determines our identity-criterion fundamentally is the biological concept of "human animal". In this paper I argue that this "Animalist" conception is unsound and that the primitiveness of our animal nature should not exclude the concept of "person" as our substance-concept. I suggest, however, that "person" as a genuine substance-concept requires a fresh understanding, foreign to the traditional definition in terms of a set of certain psychological attributes.

著者

浪岡 淳

出版者

東北哲学会

雑誌

東北哲学会年報 (ISSN:09139354)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.29-42, 1996-06-05 (Released:2018-02-28)

著者

浪岡 淳

出版者

日本科学哲学会

雑誌

科学哲学 (ISSN:02893428)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.36, no.1, pp.79-94, 2003-07-25 (Released:2009-05-29)

参考文献数

37

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In this paper I focus on the roles of proprioception and of perception in forming the cognitive picture of ourselves as physical agents in the world. Our proprioceptive awareness is plausibly characterized in terms of its distinctive epistemic unmediatedness and constancy, and this fact may seem to support the view that the primary core of our self-conception is constituted by our proprioceptive self-awareness, not by ordinary modes of self-perception. I criticize some main arguments for this view, and suggest that the proper understanding of the significance of proprioception needs the appreciation of its intricate involvement with our perceptual bodilyawareness. I conclude with the remark that the notion of basic action should be restored on this epistemological footing.

著者

浪岡 淳

出版者

日本科学哲学会

雑誌

科学哲学 (ISSN:02893428)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.2, pp.95-111, 2002-11-10 (Released:2009-05-29)

参考文献数

39

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Against the prevalence of the social construct view that the concept of a person is a social artifact like that of a nation, most notably David Wiggins offers a more naturalist alternative. He compares "person" to a natural kind term as it is elucidated according to the theory of direct reference, and restricts in effect the extent of personality to the animal kingdom. In this paper I shall examine his proposal and argue for an intermediate position; the concept of a person is much closer to a natural kind concept than social construct theorists maintain, but not so close as Wiggins suggests. Indeed, the social constructionism and Wiggins's naturalism are just two consequences of the untenable ontological dichotomy of natural things as real and artifacts as nominal. A better understanding of the concept of a person requires much deeper appreciation of the reality of natural-cum-artifactual kinds of things.

著者

浪岡 淳

出版者

日本科学哲学会

雑誌

科学哲学 (ISSN:02893428)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.69-83, 2002-05-25 (Released:2009-05-29)

参考文献数

23

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The recent anti-Lockean Animalists hold that the so-called problem of personal identity is a matter of persistence of a living organism and charge the traditional Lockean view with some ontological puzzles as to how we can be a kind of animals. This newcomer proposal, however, makes it difficult to understand the importance of our distinctive psychological nature, and results in analogous puzzles about the relation between an animal and its body. The problem is to bridge the gap between the mental and the biological so as to make an entire picture of ourselves, i.e. persons as a kind of animals essentially endowed with affluent psychology. A promising solution is to abandon the reductionist assumption prevalent in this controversy and to accept our persistence as primitive relative to both the psychological and the biological continuities.

著者

浪岡 淳

出版者

日本科学哲学会

雑誌

科学哲学 (ISSN:02893428)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.85-99, 2002-05-25 (Released:2009-05-29)

参考文献数

25

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In his posthumous work, The Varieties of Reference, Gareth Evans persuasively maintained the incoherence of the concept of "quasi-memo-ry", in favor of the famous circularity objection to the Lockean analysis of personal identity in terms of psychological continuity. Evans' argument against quasi-memory illustrates that the so-called "circularity" is an inevitable consequence of the phenomenon of the identification-freedom (or immunity to error through misidentification) of our thoughts. His conception of this phenomenon implies a plausible interpretation of the circularity objection, which is firmly opposed to the prevailing reductionist theories of personal identity and aims at a sort of non-reductionism. However, it does not entail, and indeed is incompatible with, the current "Non-reductionism", i.e. the view that personal identity is a bare fact completely independent from any kind of continuity and that a person is a pure Ego beyond elucidation.

著者

浪岡 淳

出版者

東北大学哲学研究会

雑誌

思索 (ISSN:0289064X)

巻号頁・発行日

no.27, pp.p41-58, 1994