Title:
Personal identity
Author:
Martin, Raymond, 1941-
ISBN:
9780631234418
9780631234425
Publication Information:
Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003
Physical Description:
p. cm.
Series:
Blackwell readings in philosophy ; 11
Series Title:
Blackwell readings in philosophy ; 11
Contents:
Introduction: Personal Identity and What Matters in Survival: An Historical Overview / Raymond Martin and John Barresi -- 1. The Self and the Future / Bernard Williams -- 2. Personal Identity through Time / Robert Nozick -- 3. Why Our Identity Is Not What Matters / Derek Parfit -- 4. Survival and Identity / David Lewis -- 5. Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit / Christine M. Korsgaard -- 6. Fission and the Focus of One's Life / Peter Unger -- 7. Surviving Matters / Ernest Sosa -- 8. Fission Rejuvenation / Raymond Martin -- 9. Empathic Access: The Missing Ingredient in Personal Identity / Marya Schechtman -- 10. Human Concerns without Superlative Selves / Mark Johnston -- 11. The Unimportance of Identity / Derek Parfit -- 12. An Argument for Animalism / Eric T. Olson -- 13. The Self / Galen Strawson -- Books on Personal Identity since 1970.