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Disembodied Persons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

G. R. Gillett
G. R. Gillett
Affiliation:
Magdalen College, Oxford
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In discussing Disembodied Persons we need to confront two problems:

A. Under what conditions would we consider that a person was present in the absence of the normal bodily cues?

B. Could such circumstances arise?

The first question may be regarded as epistemic and the second as metaphysical.

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Philosophy , Volume 61 , Issue 237 , July 1986 , pp. 377 - 386
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1986

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