Phil 4902: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: THE SELF

1. Psychological Continuity: Classical Account

Perry: A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (1-12)
Locke: “Identity and Diversity”
Shoemaker: “Personal Identity: A Materialist Account” (296-302)

2. Psychological Continuity: Classical Criticisms

Perry: A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (13-17)
Butler: “Of Personal Identity”
Reid: “Of Mr. Locke's Account of our Personal Identity”
Shoemaker: “Personal Identity: A Materialist Account” (302-309)

3. Psychological Continuity: Contemporary Criticisms

Schechtman: “Personhood and Personal Identity” (71-87)
Klein and Nichols: “Memory and the Sense of Personal Identity”

4. Reductionism

Parfit: “Personal Identity”
Parfit: “Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons”

5. Four-Dimensionalism

Lewis: “Survival and Identity”

6. Perduring and Enduring

Loux: “Time: The A-Theory and the B-Theory”
Velleman: “So It Goes”

7. Bundles

Hume: “Of Personal Identity” and “Second Thoughts”
Reid: “Of Identity"

8. Buddhist (No) Selves

Siderits: “Buddhist No Self: The No-Owner’s Manual”
Martin: “Would It Matter All That Much if There Were No Selves?”

9. Centers of Narrative Gravity

Dennett: “The Self as Center of Narrative Gravity”
Velleman: “The Self as Narrator”

10. Narrative Selves

Strawson: “Against Narrativity”
Schechtman: “Stories, Lives, and Basic Survival: A Refinement and Defense of the Narrative View”