ABSTRACT

In the fi nal two chapters, I return to the interpretation of multiple personality. Doing so serves two purposes. First, the philosophical argument for the coexistence thesis and for the CAP criterion needs to be supported in a certain way by a discussion of multiple personality. Second, having now completed the presentation of my account of personal identity, this account can now be employed to cast light on multiple personality. Let me start this chapter by elaborating on these two points, starting with the fi rst.