Personal Identity and Self-Concern
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Description | In my talk I assess the necessary conditions for the rationality of self-concern. I challenge the assumption that anticipation is necessary for self-concern and, thus, psychological theory of personal identity is the most adequate theory to justify self-concern. I argue that self-concern is a broader form of concern that covers even unconscious episodes of our lives and even posthumous events. I further argue that a suitably adjusted narrative theory of personal identity can account for this extended form of self-concern. |
| Related projects: |