Space, Time, and Quality: A Response to 'Narrative and Personal Identity'. (31st May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schechtman, Marya
• Is Part Of: Supplement to the proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Volume 96(2022)
• Page Start: 227
• Page End: 244
• Publication Date: 2022-05-31
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Congresses; Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1093/arisup/akac006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-7013

Abstract

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.