PERSONAL IDENTITY
Philosophy 188
Stanford University, Fall 2006

Instructor: Luca FERRERO
Schedule: TTh 1:15-2:30pm
Office: 100-102a
Lecture Room: 90-92Q
tel. (650) 723-9196
Office hour: T 4:30-5:30pm

email:

and by appointment
homepage: http://www.stanford.edu/~ferrero

Required Readings are available through Coursework. There is no book or coursepack.
Supplementary Readings will be made available through Coursework

N.B. You are required to read the assigned texts before the lecture

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SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READINGS

Date  Lecture

Topic

Readings
(required readings are in boldface)

  
09/26 I Introduction  
09/28 II Where Am I? Dennett, D. "Where Am I?"  
10/03 III Identity Quine "Identity"
Chisholm "Identity Through Time" 		 
10/05 IV Locke Locke, J. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Book 2: Chapter 27

Atherton "Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. VIII, 1983

 1st OUTLINE DUE
10/10 V Butler, Reid and Hume Butler, J. "Of Personal Identity," The Works of Bishop Butler.

Reid, T. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. Essay III; Chs. 4 and 6.

Hume "Personal Identity" Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, part 4, section VI, and the appendix
(here is the complete volume 1 of the Treatise)

  
10/12 VI Identity and Memory

Shoemaker, S. 1984. "Persons and Their Pasts," in S. Shoemaker. Identity, Cause and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

 2nd OUTLINE DUE
10/17 VII The Psychological Criterion Shoemaker, S. ‘Personal Identity: a Materialist's account" in Shoemaker & Swinburne, Personal Identity, 1994, Oxford: Blackwell  pp. 89-97, 106-118, 130-132

Shoemaker, "Self and Substance", Philosophical Perspectives, 1997, vol. 11: 283-304

10/19 VIII The Bodily Criterion Williams, B. "The Self and the Future" Philosophical Review (1970) 79: 161-180  
10/24 IX Animalism Snowdon, P.  'Persons, Animals and Bodies' in The Body and the Self, Bermudez, J., Eilan, N. and Marcel, A. (eds.), MIT Press, 1995, p. 71-86 3rd OUTLINE DUE
Topics of first paper distributed
10/26 X

-- Catching Up

  
10/31 XI Parfit 1 Parfit, D. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press. 1984. Ch. 12-13 FIRST PAPER DUE
11/02 XII Parfit 2  
11/07 XIII The Importance of Identity 1 Perry, J. "The Importance of Being Identical," in Amelie Rorty The Identities of persons (1975): 67-90
11/09 XIV The Importance of Identity 2 Whiting, J. "Friends and Future Selves"The Philosophical Review Vol. 95 (1986): 547-580  
11/14 XV Identity: Practical or Metaphysical? 1 Korsgaard, C. "Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency"
Philosophy and Public Affairs Vol. 18 (1989): 101-132 		4th OUTLINE DUE
11/16 XVI Identity: Practical or Metaphysical? 2 Velleman, D. "Self to Self" The Philosophical Review Vol.105 (1996): 39-76  
11/21      --- Happy Thanksgiving ---
11/23
11/28 XVII Identity Practical or Metaphysical? 3 Rovane, C. "Rationality and Persons" 5th OUTLINE DUE  
Topics of second paper distributed
11/30 XVIII The Narrative View 1 Dennett, D. "The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity"
Velleman, D. "The Self as Narrator" in D.Velleman, Self to Self, Ch. 9 		 
12/5 XIX The Narrative View 2  
12/7 XX Conclusion SECOND PAPER DUE
 

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ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING POLICY

UNDERGRADUATES
5 Outlines (300-500 words each)

15%

First Paper (1500-2100 words / approximately 5-7 pages)

35%

Second Paper (1800-2400 words / approximately 6-8 pages)

40%

Class participation

10%

No incompletes will be granted, but for documented medical or family emergencies

GRADING GUIDELINES are to be found at http://www.uwm.edu/~ferrero/grading.htm

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