Diminished and fractured selves

Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspectives from Philosophy, Ethics, and Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 129-162

  Perry, John ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (6)

1. I argue for the former view, the identity theory-the mind is the brain and mental states are brain states-in Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness (Perry 2001).
2. Essays by Williams, Locke, and Shoemaker on personal identity can be found in the edited volume Personal Identity (Perry 1974).
3. See Borges's "He and I," in his Collected Fictions (1999).
4. See also Sizemore's Mind of My Own (1989)
5. and "Hume's Deathbed Interview with James Boswell" (Hume 1947).
6. For more on these issues, see Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self (Perry 2002).