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108Survival of bodily death: A question of values: Raymond MartinReligious Studies 28 (2): 165-184. 1992.Does anyone ever survive his or her bodily death ? Could anyone? No speculative questions are older than these, or have been answered more frequently or more variously. None have been laid to rest more often, or — in our times — with more claimed decisiveness. Jay Rosenberg, for instance, no doubt speaks for many contemporary philosophers when he claims, in his recent book, to have ‘ demonstrated ’ that ‘ we cannot [even] make coherent sense of the supposed possibility that a person's history mi…Read more
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35Review (review)History and Theory 34 (4): 320-339. 1995.In this extraordinarily rich and provocative book by an eminent intellectual historian and philosopher, Richard Sorabji argues persuasively that there was “an intense preoccupation” among ancient western thinkers with self and related notions. In the process, he provides fresh translations and often novel interpretations of the most important passages relevant to this contention in a host of thinkers, including Homer, Epicharmus, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Chrysippus, Cicero, Lucret…Read more
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27Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to What Matters in SurvivalCambridge University Press. 1997.This book is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of the self, personal identity and survival. Its distinctive methodology is one that is phenomenologically descriptive rather than metaphysical and normative. On the basis of this approach Raymond Martin shows that the distinction between self and other is not nearly as fundamental a feature of our so-called egoistic values as has been traditionally thought. He explains how the belief in a self as a fixed, continuous…Read more
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70Self-concern from Priestley to HazlittBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (3). 2003.himself or a proper object of his egoistic self-concern. Hazlitt concluded that belief in personal identity must be an acquired imaginary conception and that since in reality each of us is no more related to his or her future self than to the future self of any other person none of us is 2 ‘
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3Personal identity and what mattes in survival: An historical overviewIn Raymond Martin & John Barresi (eds.), Personal identity, Blackwell. pp. 1--74. 2003.
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38It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when...
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232Personal identity (edited book)Blackwell. 2003.These are the very scholars that were involved in initiating the revolution in personal identity theory.
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104Memory, connecting, and what matters in survivalAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 65 (1): 82-97. 1987.This Article does not have an abstract
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131Locke's psychology of personal identityJournal of the History of Philosophy 38 (1): 41-61. 2000.By attending just to conceptual analysis and metaphysics in connection with Locke's theory of personal identity, but ignoring psychology, one can know that, in Locke's view, consciousness via memory unifies persons over time, but not how consciousness unifies persons, either over time or at a time, nor why, for Locke, the mechanisms of self-constitution are crucially important to personal identity. In explaining Locke's neglected thoughts on the psychology of personal identity, I argue, first, t…Read more
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22Locke's Image of the World By Michael Jacovides Oxford University Press, 2016. 256pp, £45 ISBN: 9780198789864 (review)Philosophy 93 (2): 307-312. 2018.
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37Hazlitt on the Future of the SelfJournal of the History of Ideas 56 (3). 1995.William Hazlitt's moment occurred in 1794, when he was sixteen years old. In that moment Hazlitt thought he realized three things: that we are naturally connected to ourselves in the past and present but only imagina-.
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48From the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, European philosophers were preoccupied with using their newfound access to Aristotle’s metaphysics and natural philosophy to develop an integrated account, hospitable to Christianity, of everything that was thought to exist, including God, pure finite spirits, the immaterial souls of humans, the natural world of organic objects and inorganic objects. This account included a theory of human mentality. In the sixteenth and early seventeenth cent…Read more
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561. In the Essay, Locke’s most controversial claim, which he slipped into Book IV almost as an aside, was that matter might think (Locke1975:IV.iii.6;540-1).i Either because he was genuinely pious, which he was, or because he was clever, which he also was, he tied the denial that matter might think to the claim that God’s powers are limited, thus, attempting to disarm his critics. It did not work. Stillingfleet and others were outraged. If matter can think, then for explanatory purposes the immat…Read more
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36Fission Examples in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Personal Identity DebateHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 15 (3). 1998.
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9Krishnamurti: Reflections on the SelfOpen Court Publishing. 1997.A selection of Indian thinker Krishnamurti's (1895-1986) talks and and writings, edited quite heavily to be more comprehensible to academic and analytic philosophers. They are arranged in sections on inquiry emotion, self and identification, and freedom. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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