Staying Alive
Subtitle: Personal Identity, Practical Concerns, and the Unity of a Life
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199684878
Subjects: Identity (philosophical concept)
Description: Marya Schechtman offers a new theory of personal identity, which captures the importance of being able to reidentify people in our daily lives. She sees persons as loci of practical interaction, and defines the unity of such a locus in terms of biological, psychological, and social functions, mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.