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Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 Ellen Frankel Paul (Bowling Green State University, Ohio)

Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 By Ellen Frankel Paul (Bowling Green State University, Ohio)

Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 by Ellen Frankel Paul (Bowling Green State University, Ohio)


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In this collection, first published in 2005, twelve prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists offer valuable insights into the nature of personal identity and its implications for morality and public policy.

Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 Summary

Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 by Ellen Frankel Paul (Bowling Green State University, Ohio)

What is a person? What makes me the same person today that I was yesterday or will be tomorrow? Philosophers have long pondered these questions. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates observed that all of us are constantly undergoing change: we experience physical changes to our bodies, as well as changes in our 'manners, customs, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, [and] fears'. Aristotle theorized that there must be some underlying 'substratum' that remains the same even as we undergo these changes. John Locke rejected Aristotle's view and reformulated the problem of personal identity in his own way: is a person a physical organism that persists through time, or is a person identified by the persistence of psychological states, by memory? These essays - written by prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists - offer valuable insights into the nature of personal identity and its implications for morality and public policy.

About Ellen Frankel Paul (Bowling Green State University, Ohio)

Ellen Frankel Paul is Deputy Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. Fred D. Miller, Jr. is Executive Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. Jeffrey Paul is Associate Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Experience, agency, and personal identity Marya Schechtman; 2. When does a person begin? Lynne Rudder Baker; 3. Persons, social agency, and constitution Robert A. Wilson; 4. Hylemorphic dualism David S. Oderberg; 5. Personal identity and self-ownership Edward Feser; 6. Self-conception and personal identity: revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an eye on the grip of the unity reaction Marvin Belzer; 7. The normativity of self-grounded reason David Copp; 8. Rationality means being willing to say you're sorry Jennifer Roback Morse; 9. Personal identity and postmortem survival Stephen E. Braude; 10. 'The thing I am': personal identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare John Finnis; 11. Moral status and personal identity: clones, embryos, and future generations F. M. Kamm; 12. The identity of identity: moral and legal aspects of technological self-transformation Michael H. Shapiro.

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NLS9780521617673
9780521617673
0521617677
Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 by Ellen Frankel Paul (Bowling Green State University, Ohio)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2005-07-04
404
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