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PERSONAL IDENTITY
We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make
plans, we assume that
we
will carry them out; when we punish some-
one for a crime, we assume that
she
is the same person as the one who
committed it. Metaphysical questions underlying these assumptions
point toward an area of deep existential and philosophical interest. In
this volume, leading metaphysicians discuss key questions about
personal identity, including
“What
are we?,”
“How
do we persist?”
and
“Which
conditions guarantee our identity over time?” They
discuss whether personal identity is
“complex,”
whereby it is analyz-
able in terms of simpler relations such as physical or psychological
features, or whether it is
“simple,”
i.e. something that cannot be
analyzed in terms of more fundamental relations. Their essays offer
an innovative discussion of this topic and will be of interest to a wide
readership in metaphysics.
georg gasser
is a scientific researcher at the Department of
Christian Philosophy, University of Innsbruck. He is the editor of
Personal Identity and Resurrection
(2010).
matthias stefan
is a scientific researcher at the Department of
Christian Philosophy, University of Innsbruck. He has published
papers on the ontological commitments of physicalism, personal
identity and substance dualism.
PERSONAL IDENTITY:
COMPLEX OR SIMPLE?
edited by
GEORG GASSER
and
MATTHIAS STEFAN

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