ABSTRACT

Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in the metaphysics of personal identity, questions in value theory, and discusses questions about the first person singular. Brian Garrett makes an important contribution to the philosophy of personal identity and mind, and to epistemology.

chapter 2|21 pages

Animalism and Reductionism

chapter 3|17 pages

Criteria of Personal Identity

chapter 4|13 pages

Fission

chapter 5|12 pages

Identity and Vagueness

chapter 6|12 pages

Parfit and ‘What Matters’

chapter 7|14 pages

Anscombe on ‘I’

chapter 8|23 pages

Wittgenstein on ‘I’