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Space, Time, and Quality: A Response to ‘Narrative and Personal Identity’

Marya Schechtman

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Abstract In ‘Narrative and Personal Identity’, Mark Schroeder (2022) defends an important and exciting account of personal identity. This account starts from insights he finds in Locke and Frankfurt, but moves beyond them in ways that complicate and improve their respective notions of personhood and agency. I argue that he nonetheless retains too much from the views he rejects, especially an undue emphasis on the role of agency in personal identity and an impoverished picture of our embodiment. This paper explains the ways I think Schroeder does not go far enough, and offers an account that takes his insights a step further.

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Abstract In ‘Narrative and Personal Identity’, Mark Schroeder (2022) defends an important and exciting account of personal identity. This account starts from insights he finds in Locke and Frankfurt, but moves beyond them in ways that complicate and improve their respective notions of personhood and agency. I argue that he nonetheless retains too much from the views he rejects, especially an undue emphasis on the role of agency in personal identity and an impoverished picture of our embodiment. This paper explains the ways I think Schroeder does not go far enough, and offers an account that takes his insights a step further.

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Abstract In ‘Narrative and Personal Identity’, Mark Schroeder (2022) defends an important and exciting account of personal identity. This account starts from insights he finds in Locke and Frankfurt, but moves beyond them in ways that complicate and improve their respective notions of personhood and agency. I argue that he nonetheless retains too much from the views he rejects, especially an undue emphasis on the role of agency in personal identity and an impoverished picture of our embodiment. This paper explains the ways I think Schroeder does not go far enough, and offers an account that takes his insights a step further.

Key concepts: Personal identity, Personhood, Identity (music), Agency (philosophy), Narrative, Epistemology, Quality (philosophy), Sense of agency

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