Personal Identity

1971/01/01 by Derek Parfit · 688 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Autobiographical and Biographical Writing #Contemporary philosophy #Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections #Epistemology #Identity (music) #Identity, Memory, and Therapy #Philosophy

paper · doi:10.2307/2184309

published in The Philosophical Review 80(1), 3 (Duke University Press)

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