
Practical Identity and Narrative Agency
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The chapters, written by an outstanding roster of international scholars, address a range of complex philosophical issues concerning the relationship between practical and metaphysical identity, the embodied dimensions of the first-personal perspective, the kind of reflexive agency involved in the self-constitution of one's practical identity, the relationship between practical identity and normativity, and the temporal dimensions of identity and selfhood. In addressing these issues, contributors engage with debates in the literatures on personal identity, phenomenology, moral psychology, action theory, normative ethical theory, and feminist philosophy.
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"Narrative conceptions of agency have attracted considerable philosophical interest in recent years, and this book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on this theme...Along with Mackenzie's introduction, which helpfully contextualizes and thematizes the volumes, these papers treat a rich array of interrelated topics. They are not only individually worth reading, but also resonate with one another and work well together as a collection." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Narrative conceptions of agency have attracted considerable philosophical interest in recent years, and this book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on this theme...Along with Mackenzie's introduction, which helpfully contextualizes and thematizes the volumes, these papers treat a rich array of interrelated topics. They are not only individually worth reading, but also resonate with one another and work well together as a collection." -- Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsMore details
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Kim Atkins is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is also editor of Self and Subjectivity. A Reader with Commentary and author of Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective.
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Practical Identity and Narrative Agency
Catriona Mackenzie
Part I: Personal Identity and Continuity
2. Staying Alive: Personal Continuation and a Life Worth Having
Marya Schechtman
3. Personal Identity: Practical or Metaphysical?
Caroline West
4. Narrative Identity and Embodied Continuity
Kim Atkins
Part II: Practical Identity and Practical Deliberation
5. Personal Identity Management
Jan Bransen
6. Imagination, Identity and Self-Transformation
Catriona Mackenzie
7. Why Search for Lost Time: Memory, Autonomy, and Practical Reason
John Christman
Part III: Selfhood and Normative Agency
8. The Way of the Wanton
J. David Velleman
9. Losing One's Self
Cheshire Calhoun
10. Normative Agency
Jeanette Kennett and Steve Matthews
11. Remorse and Moral Identity
Christopher Cordner
Part IV: Selfhood, Narrative and Time
12. Shaping a Life: Narrative, Time and Necessity
Genevieve Lloyd
13. How to Change the Past
Karen Jones
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