Identity, Personal Identity and the SelfThis volume collects a number of Perry’s classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity,Persons and Information,Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perry’s Introduction puts his own work and that of others on the issues of identity and personal identity in the context of philosophical studies of mind and language over the past thirty years. |
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action agent-relative role analysis analyzed B-body person belief bodily identity body transfer brain brain zap branch language Brown-Jones Brownson causal claim constraints contains criterion of identity Derek Parfit doctrine of relative Dwight Clark entity equivalence relation Ernst Mach essay event example experience explain express fact Frege Geach given Grand Island Grice human-theory iden identify imagine impersonal conception involved John Perry Jones K-identity lifetime language logical look Mach memory theory mentalist Nagel notion occur one-one one’s operation P-relation Parfit past perhaps person-stage language personal identity philosophical place-times predicate problem properties proposition propositional attitudes question reason reduplication refer reflexive rela relative identity relative numbers remember rock seems self-concept self-informative self-knowledge self-notion sense sentence Shoemaker Shoemaker's Smith-Jones someone sort stages suppose theory of personal things thought tion transitivity of identity true truth conditions understanding unity relation word tokens