ABSTRACT

Personal Identity is a comprehensive introduction to the nature of the self and its relation to the body. Harold Noonan places the problem of personal identity in the context of more general puzzles about identity, discussing the major historical theories and more recent debates. The second edition of Personal Identity contains a new chapter on 'animalism' and a new section on vagueness.

chapter 1|23 pages

An Initial Survey

chapter 2|22 pages

Locke

chapter 3|17 pages

Leibniz, Butler and Reid

chapter 4|21 pages

Hume

chapter 5|19 pages

Identity and Personal Identity

chapter 6|22 pages

Identity and Determinacy

chapter 7|16 pages

The Reduplication Problem

chapter 8|19 pages

Quasi-Memory

chapter 9|15 pages

Parfit and What Matters in Survival

chapter 10|17 pages

The Self and the Future

chapter 11|18 pages

Persons, Animals and Human Beings

chapter 12|18 pages

Against the Closest Continuer Theory