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Personal Identity brings together the most important readings on personal identity theory.
- Brings together 13 of the most important readings on personal identity theory.
- Includes a detailed introductory historical essay, tracing the origins of personal identity theory.
- Features essays by David Lewis, Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, and Robert Nozick.
- Describes the revolutionary shift from the "internal relations" view of personal identity to the "external relations" view.
- Includes a discussion on the controversial topic of animalism.
- Collectively offers a comprehensive introduction to the field.
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Personal Identity brings together the most important readings on personal identity theory in a collection ideal for students, philosophers, and all other interested readers. The volume begins with a detailed introductory historical essay by the editors, which traces the evolution of personal identity theory in the West from classical Greece to the twentieth century. It also describes how, in the early 1970s, philosophers shifted their attention from the 'internal relations' view of personal identity to an 'external relations' view that explores, among other considerations, what matters in survival.
The essays that follow are delineated by this twentieth-century philosophical shift. The first section features seminal papers by such luminaries as Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, Robert Nozick, and David Lewis. These are the very scholars that were involved in initiating the revolution in personal identity theory. The second section features papers by Christine Korsgaard, Peter Unger, Ernest Sosa, Raymond Martin, Marya Schechtman, Mark Johnston, and Derek Parfit that focus primarily on the new question of survival. Finally, a recent paper on animalism by Eric Olson and one on the self by Galen Strawson indicate new directions in which further discussion might continue.
About the Author
Raymond Martin is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Union College. He previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park where he is now Emeritus Professor. His books include The Past Within Us (1989) and Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to What Matters in Survival (1998).
John Barresi is Professor of Psychology at Dalhousie University. In collaboration with Raymond Martin, he has co-authored Naturalization of the Soul: Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century (2000).
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- PublisherWiley-Blackwell
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 063123442X
- ISBN 13 9780631234425
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages408
- EditorRaymond Martin, John Barresi
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