Identities of Persons

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University of California Press (1976)
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In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity, edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975).

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9780520353060   0520353064   9780520033092   0520033094

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I Survival and Identity.  (pages 17-40)David Lewis
Ii Survival.  (pages 41-66)Georges Rey
III the Importance of Being Identical.  (pages 67-90)John Perry
Iv Lewis, Perry, and What Matters.  (pages 91-108)Derek Parfit
V Embodiment and Behavior.  (pages 109-138)Sydney Shoemaker
Vi Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind.  (pages 139-174)David Wiggins
Vii Conditions of Personhood.  (pages 175-196)Daniel Dennett
Viii Persons, Character and Morality.  (pages 197-216)Bernard Williams
Ix Rational Homunculi.  (pages 217-238)Ronald de Sousa
X Identification and Externality.  (pages 239-252)Harry Frankfurt
Xi Self-Identity and Self-Regard.  (pages 253-280)Terence Penelhum
Xii Responsibility for Self.  (pages 281-300)Charles Taylor
A Literary Postscript: Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals.  (pages 301-324)Amélie O. Rorty

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Amelie Rorty
PhD: Yale University; Last affiliation: Boston University

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