1st Edition
Practical Identity and Narrative Agency
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction: Practical Identity and Narrative Agency
Kim Atkins and Catriona Mackenzie
Part 1: Personal Identity and Continuity
2: Staying Alive: Personal Continuation and a Life Worth Having
Marya Schechtman
3: Personal Identity: Practical or Metaphysical?
Caroline West
4: Narrative Identity and Embodied Continuity
Kim Atkins
Part 2: Practical Identity and Practical Deliberation
5: Personal identity Management
Jan Bransen
6: Imagination, Identity and Self-Transformation
Catriona Mackenzie
7: Why Search for Lost Time: Memory, Autonomy, and Practical Reason
John Christman
Part 3: Selfhood and Normative Agency
8: The Way of the Wanton
J.David Velleman
9: Losing One's Self
Cheshire Calhoun
10: Normative Agency
Jeanette Kennett & Steve Matthews
11: Remorse and Moral Identity
Chris Cordner
Part 4: Selfhood, Narrative and Time
12: Shaping a Life: Narrative, Time and Necessity
Genevieve Lloyd
13: How to Change the Past
Karen Jones
Biography
Catriona Mackenzie is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is also author of Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency and the Social Self.
"Narrative conceptions of agency have attracted considerable philosophical interest in recent years, and this book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on this theme...Along with Mackenzie's introduction, which helpfully contextualizes and thematizes the volumes, these papers treat a rich array of interrelated topics. They are not only individually worth reading, but also resonate with one another and work well together as a collection." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
