The Diachronic Mind

The Diachronic Mind Synopsis

vii 1 ~OOUCTIONANOOVERVlliW 1 2 SEITING THE STAGE:

PERSONAL IDENTITY ANO THE

MErAPHYSICS OFMIND 1. Introduction 6 2. The Problem of Personal Identity over Time 7 3.

The Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity over Time 12 4. The Neo-Lockean Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity 16 5. The Circularity Objection 19 6.

Problems of Logical Form 21 7. The Lack of a Third-Person Criterion for Reidentification 23 8. The Unity of the Mental Bundle 25 9.

The Individuation ofPersons 26 10. The Neo-Lockean Criterion and Physicalism: a 'Natural' Alliance 28 11. One 'Solution' to Five Problems 35 3 PARFIT'S REDUcrIO OF A SUBSTRATUM-ORIENTEO CONCEPfION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUlTY 43 1.

Introduction 2. Relation R 45 51 3. Relation R and the Neo-Lockian Paradigm 4.

Psychological Atomism 56 61 5. The Central Place of Q-Memory in the Neo-Lockean Paradigm 64 6. The Trouble with Q-memory 74 7.

Contents and Contexts. The Other Four Problems 79 8. Conclusions 4 A

CON1ENT-ORIENTEO CONCEPTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY

82 1. Introduction 83 2. Two Kinds of Psychological Continuity 91 3.

Levels of N-Continuity 93 4. The Unity of N-Continuous Sequences. The Role of the Body 105 5.

N-Continuity and Psychological Connectedness 109 6. Summary vi 5 A

PSYCHOLOGICAL CRI1ERION OF PERSONAL

IDENTITY:

THE AVE PROBLEMS REVISITED

1. Introduction 111 2. Circularity, Q-Memory, and N-Continuity 112 119 3.

Narrativity and Logical Form 127 4. Third-Person Criteria of Reidentification: The Role of the Body 5.