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Personal identity

edited by Harold Noonan

(The international research library of philosophy, 3 . Metaphysics and epistemology)

Dartmouth, c1993

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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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Details

  • NCID
    BA20230040
  • ISBN
    • 1855212994
  • LCCN
    92029002
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot ; Brookfield
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 538 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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