Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Personal Identity

  • Who Am I? Personal Identity versus Political Identity

    Preliminary note: what has been exercising me lately is the question whether there is a deep common root to the political identitarianism of the Left and the Right, and if there is, what this root is. Nihilism, perhaps? I wrote: . . . my identity as a person trumps my identity as an animal. Part…

  • Lecturer on Personal Identity Denied Honorarium

    The members of the philosophy department were so convinced by the lecturer's case against diachronic personal identity that they refused to pay him his honorarium on the ground that the potential recipient could not be the same person as the lecturer. This from a piece by Stanley Hauerwas: It is by no means clear to me…