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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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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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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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28The experience of philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.This exceptional anthology immerses students in such powerful ideas that they will find themselves not just reading about, but actually participating in, the kind of philosophical thinking that can change the way they look at their lives and the world around them. Now in a new edition, The Experience of Philosophy features eighty-five readings that challenge students' thinking about God, freedom, reality, nothingness, death, and their own identities. Provocative and accessible, these selections …Read more
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8Krishnamurti: 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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54Personal identity and causality: Becoming ungluedAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 24 (4): 339-347. 1987.
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1The Experience of Philosophy (Second Edition) (edited book)Belmont: Wadsworth. 1992.This exceptional anthology immerses students in such powerful ideas that they will find themselves not just reading about, but actually participating in, the kind of philosophical thinking that can change the way they look at their lives and the world around them. Now in a new edition, The Experience of Philosophy features eighty-five readings that challenge students' thinking about God, freedom, reality, nothingness, death, and their own identities. Provocative and accessible, these selections …Read more
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99_Naturalization of the Soul_ charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when the religious 'soul' was replaced first by a philosophical 'self' and then by a scientific 'mind'. The authors show that many supposedly contemporary theories of the self were actually discussed in the eighte…Read more
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