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Staying Alive: Personal Identity, Practical Concerns and the Unity of a Life
by Marya Schechtman.
Oxford, 214 pp., £35, March 2014,978 0 19 968487 8 Show More
by Marya Schechtman.
Oxford, 214 pp., £35, March 2014,
“... values, desires and other features [which] make someone the person she is’. These are Marya Schechtman’s words in The Constitution of Selves (1996), her vivid first book, which refreshed the debate on personal identity by (among other things) re-emphasising the importance of continuity of character and stressing the significance, in ... ”