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The Constitution of Selves by Schechtman, Marya, 1960- is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Constitution of Selves about?
<p>An amnesia victim asking "Who am I?" means something different from a confused adolescent asking the same question. Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The problem of personal identity, she suggests, is usually understood to be a question about historical life. What she calls the "reidentification question" is taken to be the real metaphysical question of personal identity, whereas questions about belie
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Schechtman, Marya, 1960-
- Publisher
- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801431678
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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