This volume collects a number of Perry's classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity, Persons and Information, Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perry's Introduction puts his own work and that of others on the issues of identity and personal identity in the context of philosophical studies of mind and language over the past thirty years.

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Philosophy History & TheoryTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. IDENTITY
- 2. Relative Identity and Relative Number
- 3. Can the Self Divide?
- 4. The Two Faces of Identity
- II. PERSONAL IDENTITY
- 6. Williams on the Self and the Future
- 7. Personal Identity and the Concept of a Person
- 8. The Importance of Being Identical
- 9. Information, Action, and Persons
- III. THE SELF
- 11. The Sense of Identity
- References
- Glossary
- Index
- Back Cover
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