Personal Identity

Georg Gasser is a scientific researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck. He is the editor of Personal Identity and Resurrection (2010). Matthias Stefan is a scientific researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck. He has published papers on the ontological commitments of physicalism, personal identity and substance dualism.

• Introduction; Part I. Framing the Question: 1. Chitchat on personal identity David Barnett; 2. In search of the simple view Eric T. Olson; 3. Personal identity, indeterminacy, and obligation Ryan Wasserman; 4. Personal identity and its perplexities Harold W. Noonan; Part II. Arguments for and against Simplicity: 5. How to determine which is the true theory of personal identity Richard Swinburne; 6. Against simplicity Sydney Shoemaker; 7. The probable simplicity of personal identity E. J. Lowe; 8. Reply to E. J. Lowe Sydney Shoemaker; 9. The non-descriptive individual nature of conscious beings Martine Nida-Rümelin; Part III. Reconsidering Simplicity: 10. Personal identity: a not-so-simple simple view Lynne Rudder Baker; 11. Is 'person' a sortal term? Christian Kanzian; 12. Materialism, dualism, and 'simple' theories of personal identity Dean Zimmerman; 13. The morphing block and diachronic personal identity Hud Hudson; References; Index.

'Gasser and Stefan's book offers an important and timely discussion of central issues in personal identity. This is an exceptionally fine volume …' George Lăzăroiu, Review of Contemporary Philosophy