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Personal Identity Mind/Soul Brain Body Memory Story

Continuity Problem SHIP OF THESEUS Hobbes: Matter: Material, Physical Descartes: Mind

Locke’s Prince & Cobbler Consciousness Memory Problems?

Identity Continuity Question What makes some p one and the same p at different times? -- numerical identity Identification or Reidentification? Why does it matter?

Characterization Question What are the conditions under which various psychological characteristics, experiences, and actions are properly attributable to p

Narrative Identity What makes an action, experience, or psychological characteristic properly attributable to some person (and thus a proper part of his or her true identity) is its correct incorporation into the story of his or her life

Identity Crisis Who am I really? Not a question about whether I am one and the same self but who is my true self?

Psychological Unity Narrative Identity is a kind of psychological unity Unity: x, y and z must be gathered together into the life of one narrative ego by virtue of a story Leonard tells as he weaves them together Experiences/events have meaning as a result of being part of a larger story within the context of one life

Anticipation What makes certain expected experiences mine?

Special Concern for Oneself What makes future states I’m specially concerned about mine?

Responsibility & Compensation What makes those actions for which I’m responsible, or those wrongs for which I’m to be compensated, mine?

Dennett Analogy: Center of Gravity & Self Theoretical Fiction: abstractum Center of gravity is useful for explaining the behavior of physical objects under certain conditions Self is useful in explaining behavior of humans under certain conditions Fiction: ~ False: ~one of the real things in the universe (like atoms)

Hume’s Multi-Pixeled Self

Hermeneutics We interpret and reinterpret/write and rewrite as we go along. If the self were some fixed entity (something other than an abstractum) how could we make sense of this?

We are Novelists We try to make the material of our lives cohere into a single story: our autobiography Main character of this autobiography is one’s self To continue to ask what the self is beyond this is to make a category mistake

Problem Is Narrative necessary for psychological unity? And if necessary, 1st person or 3rd person? And if 1st person or 3rd person, does he, she, (or they) always get it right? How will we account for the wrong narratives?

Problem Doesn’t narrative identity presuppose or depend upon numerical identity?