Time, Identity and the Self: Essays on Metaphysics

✍ Scribed by Brian Garrett, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Synthese Library; 442
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett. These essays are followed by four short dialogues that emphasize and summarize some of the main points of the essays and discuss new perspectives that have emerged since their original publication. The volume covers topics on the metaphysics of time, the nature of identity, and the nature and importance of persons and human beings. The chapters constitute the fruits of almost four decades of philosophical research, from Brian’s two award-winning essays, published in Analysis in 1983 and The Philosophical Quarterly in 1992, to his latest ideas about Fatalism and the Grandfather Paradox. This book will be of interest to students and professional philosophers in the field of analytic philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword • Alan Hájek
Preface • Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part I: Time
1 “Thank Goodness That’s Over” Revisited
2 Experience and Time
3 Max Black and Backward Causation
4 Dummett on Reasons to Act and Bringing About the Past
5 Dummett on McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time
6 A Note on the Grandfather Paradox
7 Bulletproof Grandfathers, David Lewis, and ‘Can’t’-Judgements
8 A Dilemma for Eternalists
Part II: Identity
9 Identity and Extrinsicness
10 Best Candidate Theories and Identity
11 PossibleWorlds and Identity
12 Vague Identity and Vague Objects
13 More on Rigidity and Scope
14 Enduring Endurantism
15 Identity of Truth-Conditions
Part III: The Self
16 Some Notes on Animalism
17 Persons and Human Beings
18 The Story of ‘I’: Comments on Rudder Baker’s Constitution View of Persons
19 Personal Identity and Extrinsicness
20 Personal Identity and Reductionism
21 Bermúdez on Self-Consciousness
22 Anscombe on ‘I’
23 Wittgenstein on the First-Person
24 Persons and Values
Part IV: Afterthoughts
25 About Time
26 Affecting the Past
27 Of Identity
28 On Personal Identity
Name Index
Subject Index