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Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self

✍ Scribed by John Perry

Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Leaves
280
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This volume collects a number of Perry’s classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity, Persons and Information,Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perry’s Introduction puts his own work and that of others on the issues of identity and personal identity in the context of philosophical studies of mind and language over the past thirty years.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
I. IDENTITY
1. The Same F
2. Relative Identity and Relative Number
3. Can the Self Divide?
4. The Two Faces of Identity
II. PERSONAL IDENTITY
5. Personal Identity, Memory, and the Problem of Circularity
6. Williams on the Self and the Future
7. Personal Identity and the Concept of a Person
8. The Importance of Being Identical
9. Information, Action, and Persons
III. THE SELF
10. The Self, Self-Knowledge, and Self-Notions
11. The Sense of Identity
References
Glossary
Index

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