Publication details
Meze sebekonstituce
| Title in English | The Limits of Self-Constitution |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
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| Description | The lecture focuses on subjective theories of personal identity, according to which personal identity is a product of personal self-constitution. I present three contemporary theories of self-constitution and provide textual evidence for two possible interpretations of the goals of these theories. On one interpretation the theories define numerical identity, on the other they define practical identity. In the lecture I show the theories fail to provide a criterion of numerical identity and instead presuppose one. I also show that they fail to provide a criterion of practical identity, as they cannot explain a number of our beliefs about identity-related practical concerns. As a result, neither numerical identity nor practical identity can reasonably be considered a product of self-constitution. |
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