Open AccessDescartes, Kant, and Swinburne on Human Soul
Author(s) -
Stanisław Judycki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
roczniki filozoficzne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2450-002X
pISSN - 0035-7685
DOI - 10.18290/rf21691-5
Subject(s) - philosophy , soul , character (mathematics) , epistemology , argument (complex analysis) , a priori and a posteriori , modal , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , polymer chemistry
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.