Penulis: Descombes Vincent Descombes

Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis–a mental process crucial to human comprehension–involves breaking som …

As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use "identity" to describe the feelings associated with membership in a numb …