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Personal Identity and Self-Concern

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BĚLOHRAD Radim

Year of publication 2014
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Faculty of Arts

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Description In my talk I assess the necessary conditions for the rationality of self-concern. I challenge the assumption that anticipation is necessary for self-concern and, thus, psychological theory of personal identity is the most adequate theory to justify self-concern. I argue that self-concern is a broader form of concern that covers even unconscious episodes of our lives and even posthumous events. I further argue that a suitably adjusted narrative theory of personal identity can account for this extended form of self-concern.
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