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344Introduction: Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?In Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-17. 2012.
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16Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that we will carry them out; when we punish someone for a crime, we assume that she is the same person as the one who committed it. Metaphysical questions underlying these assumptions point towards an area of deep existential and philosophical interest. In this volume, leading metaphysicians discuss key questions about personal identity, including 'What are we?', 'How do we persist?', and 'Which conditions gua…Read more
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Cultures: Conflict-Analysis-Dialog. Papers of the 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium (edited book)Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 2006.
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Lebewesen und Artefakte: Ontologische UnterscheidungenPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 115 (1): 125-147. 2008.This article is a contribution to what we might call „commonsense-ontology“. The aim is to defend the commonsensical distinction between living beings and artefacts on the basis of ontological arguments. The distinction between living beings and artefacts is increasingly difficult to draw because of new developments in biotechnology. For developing criteria of an acceptable distinction I defend the existence of artefacts first. Subsequently I discuss three criteria how we might sensibly distingu…Read more
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Kausalkräfte und agenskausale libertarische WillensfreiheitIn Anne Sophie Spann & Daniel Wehinger (eds.), Vermögen und Handlung. Der dispositionale Realismus und unser Selbstverständnis als Handelnde, Mentis Verlag. pp. 311-335. 2013.Die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Dispositionen und Kausalkräften innerhalb der analytischen Ontologie hat wesentlich dazu beigetragen, in der Handlungstheorie offener und ungenierter von den Kausalkräften des Handelnden („agent causal powers“) bzw. der Agenskausalität (AK) zu sprechen. In diesem Beitrag gehe ich auf diese Entwicklung ein, indem ich aktuelle Ansätze agenskausaler libertarischer Willensfreiheit (ALW) diskutiere. Zuerst stelle ich kurz die Konkurrenztheorie von ALW dar, welche…Read more
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385Toward Analytic Theology: An ItineraryScientia et Fides 3 (2): 23-56. 2015.In this paper I aim at explaining how analytic philosophical theology developed into a thriving field of research. In doing so, I place analytic philosophical theology into a larger intellectually narrative that is deeply influenced by the philosophy of Enlightenment. This larger framework shows that analytic philosophical theology aims at providing answers to concerns raised by a philosophical tradition that shaped fundamentally the making of our modern Western secular world.
Georg Gasser
Universität Augsburg
Medical University of Innsbruck
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Medical University of InnsbruckLecturer
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
European Philosophy |