文档介绍：PERSONAL IDENTITY AND
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
In eight, clear, careful and well designed chapters Brian Garrett analyses
the central issues involved in the problem of personal identity. I found
the central chapters, in which Garrett brings…his clarity of thought and
a mastery of general logic, particularly rating and helpful. Garrett
has written an intelligent, thoughtful and thought-provoking
book…which significantly moves the debate along, and which should be
read by students and by all philosophers interested in personal identity.
Paul
Exeter College, Oxford
In Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness, Brian Garrett presents an
original prehensive theory of persons: their nature, their
values, and their self-consciousness. He begins by proposing a new
theory of personal identity over time. Next, he defends the importance
of personal identity against recent sceptical attack. Finally, Garrett
explores the nature of self-consciousness by examining the elusive
pronoun ‘I’ and the various grounds of our ‘I’ judgements.
Brian Garrett places recent discussions of personal identity in a
broader context, and links issues in personal identity with other central
issues in philosophy, notably the problem of self-consciousness and
questions in ethics. Garrett manages to tackle a technical plex
discussion with jargon-free and elegant language.
This is the first book of its kind to bring together the many different
issues that surround the discussion of personal identity. Brian Garrett
makes an important and original contribution to the study of the
philosophy of personal identity, the philosophy of mind, and to
epistemology.
Brian Garrett is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Australian National
University.
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