The Identities of persons

University of California Press

1976

333 p.

Topics in philosophy ; 3

9780520033092

Introduction / Amélie O. Rorty Survival and identity / David Lewis Survival / Georges ReyThe importance of being identical / John PerryLewis, Perry, and what matters / Derek Parfit Embodiment and behavior / Sydney Shoemaker Locke, Butler and the stream of consciousness: and men as natural kind / David Wiggins Conditions of personhood / Daniel Dennett Persons, character and morality / Bernard Williams Rational homunculi / Ronald de Sousa Identification and externality / Harry Frankfurt Self-identity and self-regard / Terence Penelhum Responsibility for self / Charles Taylor A literary postscript: characters, persons, selves, individuals / Amélie O. Rorty

In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity, edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975)

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