Personal Identity

Raymond Martin (Editor), John Barnes (Editor)

ISBN: 978-0-631-23441-8

Hardcover

408 pages

February 2002, Wiley-Blackwell

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Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Personal Identity & What Matters in Survival: A Historical Overview: Raymond Martin (University of Maryland at College Park) and John Barresi (Dalhousie University).

1. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams (All Souls, Oxford University).

2. Personal Identity through Time: Robert Nozick (Harvard University).

3. Why Our Identity is Not What Matters: Derek Parfit (All Souls, Oxford University).

4. Survival and Identity and Postscripts: David Lewis (Princeton University).

5. Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit: Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University).

6. Fission and the Focus of One's Life: Peter Unger (New York University).

7. Surviving Matters: Ernest Sosa (Brown University).

8. Fission Rejuvenation: Raymond Martin (University of Maryland, College Park).

9. Empathic Access: The Missing Ingredient in Personal Identity: Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois at Chicago).

10. Human Concerns Without Superlative Selves: Mark Johnston (Princeton University).

11. The Unimportance of Identity: Derek Parfit (All Souls, Oxford University).

12. An Argument for Animalism: Eric Olson (Churchill College, Cambridge University).