Descartes, Kant, and Swinburne on Human Soul

• Authors: Stanisław Judycki

Title variants

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Descartes, Kant, and Swinburne on Human Soul

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

This paper addresses two issues in Richard Swinburne’s book Are We Bodies or Souls? I interpret Swinburne’s modal argument as an example of a priori synthetic knowledge. Swinburne’s thesis that every person possesses “thisness” is compared with Kant’s distinction between the empirical character and the intelligible character.

Keywords

EN

soul; synthetic a priori knowledge; Kant; empirical and intelligible character

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Filozoficzne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-56

Dates

published

2021-03-18

Contributors

author

Stanisław Judycki

• University of Gdańsk

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3586-846X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rf21691-5