The social nature of personal identity
Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (s 5-6):56-76 (2007)
| Abstract | In this paper the thesis that personal identity is essentially constituted by social relations is defended. To make this plausible the problem of personal identity is broken down into four interrelated sets of problems. Of these, the unity -- and the persistence -- problems cannot be resolved using the notion of a person and therefore personal identity in this sense is not socially constituted. But this paper argues that the conditions of personhood, and the structure of a human being's personality -- which are the other two sets into which the problem of personal identity is dissolved -- are best understood as being constituted by social relations, especially relations of mutual | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,865 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesJennifer Radden (2004). Identity: Personal Identity, Characterization Identity, and Mental Disorder. In The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stephan Blatti (2007). Animalism and Personal Identity. In M. Bekoff (ed.), Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships. Greenwood Press.
E. Furberg (2012). Advance Directives and Personal Identity: What Is the Problem? Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 37 (1):60-73.
R. G. Swinburne (1973). Personal Identity. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74:231 - 247.
Eric Olson (2006). Is There a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity? In Fraser MacBride (ed.), Identity and Modality. Oxford University Press.
Bhikhu Parekh (2009). Logic of Identity. Politics, Philosophy and Economics 8 (3):267-284.
Amartya Sen (2009). The Fog of Identity. Politics, Philosophy and Economics 8 (3):285-288.
Ned Markosian (2010). Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity. In Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & Harry Silverstein (eds.), Time and Identity. Mit Press.
Michael Quante (2005). Personal Identity Between Survival and Integrity. Poiesis and Praxis 4 (2):145-161.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads125 ( #3,976 of 556,747 )Recent downloads (6 months)2 ( #38,924 of 556,747 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
