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Bernard Williams Problems of the Self (Toronto; Macmillan Co. of Canada) $15. Pp. vii, 267.1

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Bernard Williams Problems of the Self (Toronto; Macmillan Co. of Canada) $15. Pp. vii, 267.1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1974

J.A. Brook  and
J.W. Leyden
J.A. Brook
Affiliation:
Carleton University
J.W. Leyden
Affiliation:
Carleton University
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1975 , pp. 627 - 639
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Copyright © The Authors 1975

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1 All bracketed page references are to this book.

2 Here we have deliberately taken just examples which refer to the future, to avoid muddying the waters with any problems about the possibility of a present object being identical with any other past object than the one it actually was.

3 The issues of whether imagining oneself to be possible past or future persons can be supposition-free, what is entailed by the possibilities such imagination cases establish, and whether one can imagine a future person with whom one imagines one's identity to be undecidable, are discussed further in Brook, J.A. 'Imagination, Possibility and Personal Identity', American Philosophical Quarterly, XII (1975), 185-198.Google Scholar

4 Williams also agrees: APB?, pp. 75.

5 For what little Williams says on this remarkable suggestion, cf. APB?, pp. 80–1.

6 Cf. especially Mind, Vol. 65, 1956 pp. 507–509.

7 Cf. Rescher, N. The Logic of Commands, (Methuen, 1966) pp. 82 ff.Google Scholar