Personal Identity, Second Edition: Volume 2 -- John Perry

<p>This volume brings together the vital contributions of distinguished past and contemporary philosophers to the important topic of personal identity. The essays range from John Locke's classic seventeenth-century attempt to analyze personal identity in terms of memory, to twentieth-century defenses and criticisms of the Lockean view by Anthony Quinton, H.P. Grice, Sydney Shoemaker, David Hume, Joseph Butler, Thomas Reid, and Bernard Williams.</p><p>New to the second edition are Shoemaker's seminal essay "Persons and Their Pasts," selections from the important and previously unpublished Clark-Collins correspondence, and a new paper by Perry discussing Williams.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> John Perry<br><b>Publisher:</b> University of California Press<br><b>Published:</b> 05/07/2008<br><b>Pages:</b> 360<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.00lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780520256422<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>John Perry </b>is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, co-host of the award-winning radio program Philosophy Talk, and author of many books including <i>Knowledge, Possibility, and Conciousness </i>and <i>Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self. </i></p>