Staying Alive: Personal Identity, Practical Concerns, and the Unity of a Life

New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2014)
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Marya Schechtman offers a new theory of personal identity, which captures the importance of being able to reidentify people in our daily lives. She sees persons as loci of practical interaction, and defines the unity of such a locus in terms of biological, psychological, and social functions, mediated through social and cultural infrastructure

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This chapter considers the possibility that literal questions about personal identity should be sharply distinguished from practical questions and that the two kinds of questions should be pursued entirely separately. Christine Korsgaard’s view of agential identity represents this point of... see more

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