Self and identity / Trenton Merricks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merricks, Trenton, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Ego (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 184 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, [2022]

Summary:

Trenton Merricks shows that we cannot get clear about personal identity unless we bring together the ethics and the metaphysics. He argues that, while identity is not what matters in survival, it delivers what matters in survival, which is the appropriateness of first-personal anticipation of, and self-interested concern for, a future person.

Contents:

Introduction

1: What Matters in Survival

I. Appropriate First-Personal Anticipation and Appropriate Future-Directed Self-Interested Concern

II. My Answer to the What Question

III. Consciousness and Survival

IV. What Matters to You with Regard to the Future

V. Conclusion

2: On the Sufficiency of Personal Identity

I. My Answer to the Why Question

II. More on the Metaphysics of Persistence

III. Not the Criterion of Personal Identity over Time

IV. An Unanswered Question

3: On the Necessity of Personal Identity

I. An Argument for the Necessity of Personal Identity

II. Parfit's Argument against the Necessity of Personal Identity

III. Parfit's Argument, Stage Theory, and Perdurance

IV. Parfit's Argument and Endurance

V. Psychological Connectedness and Psychological Continuity

VI. Conclusion

4: The Same Self

I. Three Selfers

II. First-Personal Access to a Point of View

III. The Same Self and Numerical Identity

IV. Growing Up

V. Other Transformations

5: The Same Self-Narrative

I. The Self-Narrative Account

II. The Same Self-Narrative and the Same Self

III. The Same Self-Narrative and Numerical Identity

IV. Growing Up Redux

V. Other Changes in Self-Narrative

VI. Other Work for Self-Narrative and the Same Self

VII. Conclusion

6: Agential Continuity and Narrative Continuity

I. The Agential Continuity Account

II. The Narrative Continuity Account

III. Agential Continuity, Narrative Continuity, and Numerical Identity

IV. Some Significant Transformations

V. Other Work for Agential Continuity and Narrative Continuity

VI. More on Psychological Connectedness and Psychological Continuity

7: The Hope of Glory

I. The Hope of Survival

II. The Hope of Transformation

III. The Hope and Psychological Continuity

IV. Survival Does Not Come in Degrees

V. The Tedium Objection

VI. The Irrationality Objection

VII. Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Merricks, Trenton Self and Identity

ISBN:

9780191926068

019192606X

9780192655387

0192655388

9780192655370

019265537X

OCLC:

1292357152