Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Personal Identity in Philosophy
When philosophers talk about personal identity, they're talking about impersonal identity. The question of transformation that I'm talking about here and the way in which you stay the same is not really the question they're trying to sort out. Parfett will say, it'll talk a little bit about this because mainly he's gonna talk about this in terms of memory,. He's pivoting off of Locke and the idea of psychological continuity will have a lot to do with memory.
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