文档介绍：PERSONAL IDENTITY
PERSONAL IDENTITY
Harold
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First edition published 1989
First published in paperback 1991
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Second edition published 2003
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TO THE MEMORY OF MY PARENTS
AND GRANDPARENTS
CONTENTS
Preface to second edition x
Preface xi
1 An Initial Survey 1
Introduction 1
Constitutive and evidential criteria 2
The bodily criterion 2
The brain criterion 3
The physical criterion 4
Objections to the physical criterion 6
The memory criterion 9
The psychological continuity criterion 10
The circularity objection 11
The reduplication argument 11
The revised psychological continuity criterion 13
The multiple occupancy thesis 14
The simple view 15
The determinacy thesis 17
What matters in survival 19
Parfit’s ar