Consciousness and persons : unity and identity / Michael Tye.

In Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity, Michael Tye takes on the thorny issue of the unity of consciousness and answers these important questions: What exactly is the unity of consciousness? Can a single person have a divided consciousness? What is a single person? Tye argues that unity is...

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Main Author: Tye, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Series:Representation and mind.
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