Self and Identity

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: What Matters in Survival


• 2: On the Sufficiency of Personal Identity


• 3: On the Necessity of Personal Identity


• 4: The Same Self


• 5: The Same Self-Narrative


• 6: Agential Continuity and Narrative Continuity


• 7: The Hope of Glory

About the author

Trenton Merricks is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Objects and Persons (OUP, 2001), Truth and Ontology (OUP, 2007), Propositions (OUP, 2015), and many articles in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Trenton Merricks, Trenton (Commonwealth Professor of Philo Merricks, Trenton (University of Virginia) Merricks, Merricks Trenton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780192843432
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284343-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy