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70The Crucial Relation in Personal IdentityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 131-145. 1978.1. What is the Problem of Personal Identity?Locke posed the problem of personal identity in one brief question, “What makes the same person?” This formulation is deceptively simple. My aim is to offer a new interpretation of the problem and to suggest a method for finding a solution.Investigations of personal identity are usually cast in terms of finding the criterion for personal identity. Yet talk of criteria is ambiguous. In one sense of the term, the criterion of personal identity would be s…Read more
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16Connecting intuitions and concepts at b 160nSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (S1): 137-149. 1987.
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10Empirical ConsciousnessIn Marcus Willaschek, Jürgen Stolzenberg, Georg Mohr & Stefano Bacin (eds.), Kant-Lexikon, De Gruyter. 2015.
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1Kant’s philosophy of the cognitive mindIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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152Kant on self-identityPhilosophical Review 91 (1): 41-72. 1982.Despite Kemp Smith's claims to the contrary, I show that there is good reason to believe that Kant was aware of Hume's attack on personal identity. My interpretive claim is that we can make sense of many of Kant's puzzling remarks in the subjective deduction by assuming that he was trying to reply to Hume's challenge. My substantive claim is that Kant succeeds in defending a notion of the self as a continuing sequence of informationally interdependent states.
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136Two normative roles for self-consciousness in modern philosophyIn Herbert S. Terrace & Janet Metcalfe (eds.), The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness, Oxford University Press. pp. 174-187. 2005.
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47Kant and the MindPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 590. 1995.Consciousness, self-consciousness, mental unity, and the necessary conditions for cognition are issues of paramount importance for two prima facie distinct intellectual endeavors: contemporary cognitive science and interpretations of Kant. The goal of Andrew Brook’s timely and useful book is to contribute to both of these projects by showing how a better understanding of Kant’s views can also illuminate current controversies about how to model the mind.
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