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Contributing essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action, this book presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in "Personal Identity".

Table of Contents
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

The Identities of Persons

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/1976
      ISBN13: 9780520033092, 978-0520033092
      ISBN10: 0520033094

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contributing essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action, this book presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in "Personal Identity".

      Table of Contents
      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

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