Personal Identity [Paperback]

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• Brings together 13 of the most important readings on personal identity theory.
  
• Includes a detailed introductory historical essay, tracing the origins of personal identity theory.
  
• Features essays by David Lewis, Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, and Robert Nozick.
  
• Describes the revolutionary shift from the internal relations view of personal identity to the external relations view.
  
• Includes a discussion on the controversial topic of animalism.
  
• Collectively offers a comprehensive introduction to the field.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Personal Identity & What Matters in Survival: A Historical Overview: Raymond Martin (University of Maryland at College Park) and John Barresi (Dalhousie University).

1. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams (All Souls, Oxford University).

2. Personal Identity through Time: Robert Nozick (Harvard University).

3. Why Our Identity is Not What Matters: Derek Parfit (All Souls, Oxford University).

4. Survival and Identity and Postscripts: David Lewis (Princeton University).

5. Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit: Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University).

6. Fission and the Focus of One's Life: Peter Unger (New York University).

7. Surviving Matters: Ernest Sosa (Brown University).

8. Fission Rejuvenation: Raymond Martin (University of Maryland, College Park).

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