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Christopher Shields on Personal Identity

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What Is It to Be a Continuing Psychological Subject Through Time?

The way you describe Locke's approach and the neo-lockean approach it seems to me fairly obvious that you don't endorse that view. You think there's some other way of giving an explanation of how we continue to be the same person over time. Right things grow complex pretty quickly here. There has been a backlash to sort of locking psychological continuity theories which take us right back to where we were when we began namely the bodily continuity theory. Here the thought is look when we fasten upon the psychological to the exclusion of the body we lose part of what is normally constitutive of the same person through time namely having the same body. Now that postpones the question because one actually wants

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