Personal identity
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Bibliographic Information
Personal identity
（The international research library of philosophy, 3 . Metaphysics and epistemology）
Dartmouth, c1993
Available at 59 libraries
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Collected essays from English-language journals
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This philosophical work, which explores the concept of personal identity, includes coverage of the future, the past, the importance of self-identity, brain bisection and the unity of consciousness, the stream of consciousness, rationality, the fear of death, memory and more.
Table of Contents
- The self and the future, B.A.O. Williams
- persons and their pasts, S. Shoemaker
- personal identity, D. Parfit
- on the importance of self identity, D. Parfit
- brain bisection and the unity of consciousness, T. Nagel
- can the self divide?, J. Perry
- personal identity, R.G. Swinburne
- imagination, possibility and personal identity, J.A. Brook
- Locke, Butler and the stream of consciousness - men as a natural kind, D. Wiggins
- personal identity and rationality, D. Parfit
- the closest continuer theory of identity, H.W. Noonan
- personal identity revisited, R.C. Coburn
- critical notice - Parfit reasons and persons, S. Shoemaker
- self interest and interest in selves, S. Wolf
- comments - sections on consequentialist rationality, egoism and the fear of death, personal identity and injustice plus appendix A, appendix B, D. Parfit
- friends and future selves, J. Whiting
- memory, connecting and what matters in survival, R. Martin
- human beings, M. Johnston
- fission and the facts, M. Johnston
- branching self consciousness, C. Rovane
- surviving matters, E. Sosa
- personal identity and extrinsioness, B.J. Garrett, divided minds, E. Hirsch.
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