Staying alive

Staying alive: personal identity, practical concerns and the unity of a life

by Schechtman, Marya

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Offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests, seeing persons as unified loci of practical interaction and defining the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Staying alive : personal identity, practical concerns and the unity of a life / Marya Schechtman.

Summary

Offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests, seeing persons as unified loci of practical interaction and defining the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780191507786, 0191507784, 9781306498333, 1306498333, 9780191765155, 0191765155, 9780199684878, 0199684871
  • oclc:ocn872631371
  • LC Classification:BD236
  • Dewey Decimal:126.0

Table of Contents

Locke and the psychological continuity theorists -- Division of labor -- The expanded practical and the problem of multiplicity -- Complexity and individual unity -- The person life view -- Personal identity -- Ontology.

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