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Personal Identity in… Sh. Vahidi Mehrajardi et al (53
both the past and present, their strengths and
shedding light on the weaknesses.
significant subject of
personal identity. - Noonan in “Personal
Identity”, released in 2019,
- Gallagher in “The Oxford situates the predicament of
Handbook of the Self”, personal identity within the
published in 2013, reflects broader context of identity
the substantial growth in puzzles. Noonan delves
research on the self across into the major historical
various disciplines such as theories and contemporary
philosophy, psychology, debates; While also providing
psychopathology, and an up-to-date examination
neuroscience. This interdisciplinary of personal identity about
compilation of essays memory, animalism, and
addresses pertinent questions the works of Shoemaker,
in all these fields. Parfit, Olson, and hybrid
theorists.
- Kind in “Persons and
Personal Identity”, published The significance of these
in 2015, amalgamates three resources lies in their status as
distinct research domains: the foremost books on this
the essence of personhood, subject matter. However, a
theories on personal prevalent issue with these
identity over time, and the books is their perspective on
formation of self-identity. the nature of human beings.
Kind conducts a Many of them view humans
comprehensive analysis of solely as physical entities,
the principal contemporary leading them to address the
theories found in the question of identity through
philosophical literature, evaluating the lens of the body, reason,
