Staying alive : personal identity, practical concerns, and the unity of a life / Marya Schechtman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schechtman, Marya, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 214 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Personal identity, practical concerns, and the unity of a life

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marya Schechtman offers a new theory of personal identity, which captures the importance of being able to reidentify people in our daily lives. She sees persons as loci of practical interaction, and defines the unity of such a locus in terms of biological, psychological, and social functions, mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Staying Alive""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Locke and the Psychological Continuity Theorists""; ""1.1 Locke on Identity and the Practical""; ""1.2 Neo-Lockean Psychological Continuity Theorists""; ""1.2.1 Early development""; ""1.2.2 Reductionism and what matters""; ""1.2.3 The extreme claim""; ""1.3 Summing Up""; ""2 Division of Labor""; ""2.1 Korsgaard: Autonomy and a Response to Parfit""; ""2.2 Olson�s Animalism""; ""2.3 The Strong Independence Model and the Forensic Unit""; ""2.3.1 Korsgaard""; ""2.3.2 Olson""

""2.4 Summing Up""; ""3 The Expanded Practical and the Problem of Multiplicity""; ""3.1 Lindemann and the Range of the Practical""; ""3.1.1 Lindemann on the identity of the moral self""; ""3.1.2 The expanded practical""; ""3.2 What Kind of Practical Unit?""; ""3.3 The Problem of Multiplicity""; ""4 Complexity and Individual Unity""; ""4.1 McMahan�s Embodied Mind Account""; ""4.1.1 An overview""; ""4.1.2 The theory of time-relative interests""; ""4.2 The Narrative Self-Constitution View""; ""4.2.1 An overview""; ""4.2.2 Expanding the narrative self-constitution view�narratives and lives""

""5 The Person Life View""; ""5.1 Characteristic Person Lives: an Overview""; ""5.2 Atypical Developmental Trajectory""; ""5.3 Anomalous Social Position""; ""5.4 Nonhuman Persons""; ""5.5 Summing Up""; ""6 Personal Identity""; ""6.1 Biological Life and the Continuation of an Organism""; ""6.2 Person Lives: a Cluster Model""; ""6.3 Puzzle Cases""; ""6.3.1 The simple transfer case""; ""6.3.2 The surviving animal transfer case""; ""6.3.3 Fission""; ""6.4 Summing Up""; ""7 Ontology""; ""7.1 Animalist Objections""; ""7.2 Responses to the Animalist Objections""; ""7.2.1 Constitution""

""7.2.2 Literal questions without substances""; ""7.2.3 The priority of persons in everyday life""; ""7.2.4 What about oysters?""; ""7.3 What was the Question?""; ""7.4 Summing Up""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-880127-0

0-19-150778-4

OCLC:

878136249