The Identities of Persons
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 1976
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-0-520-03309-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-03309-2 (9780520033092)
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Content
Introduction, by Amelie O. Rorty 1. Survival and Identity, by David Lewis 2. Survival, by Georges Ray 3. The Importance of Being Identical, by John Perry 4. Lewis, Perry, and What Matters, by Derek Parfit 5. Embodiment and Behavior, by Sydney Shoemaker 6. Lock, Butler, and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind, by David Wiggins 7. Conditions of Personhood, by Daniel Dennett 8. Persons, Character, and Morality by Bernard Williams 9. Rational Homunculi, by Ronald de Sousa 10. Identification and Externality, by Harry Frankfurt 11. Self-Identity and Self-Regard, by Terence Penelhum 12. Responsibility for Self, by Charles Taylor A Literary Postscript: Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals, by Amelie O. Rorty Bibliography