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Practical Identity and Narrative Agency Theessayscollectedinthisvolumeaddressarangeofissuesthatarisewhen the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from solely metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns The essays also explore the usefulness of the notion of narrative for articulating and responding to these issues. The chapters, written by outstanding international scholars, address a range of complex philosophical issues concerning the relationship between practical and metaphysical identity, the embodied dimensions of the first- personal perspective, the kind of reflexive agency involved in the self-con- stitution of one’s practical identity, the relationship between practical iden- tity and normativity, and the temporal dimensions of identityand selfhood. In addressing these issues, the authors engagewith debates in the literatures on personal identity, phenomenology, moral psychology, action theory, normative ethical theory, and feminist philosophy. Catriona Mackenzie is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is also co-editorof Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency and the Social Self. KimAtkinsisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofWollongong, Australia. She is also editor of Self and Subjectivity. A Reader with Com- mentary and author of Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy 1. Email and Ethics Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communication Emma Rooksby 2. Causation and Laws of Nature Max Kistler 3. Internalism and Epistemology The Architecture of Reason Timothy McGrew and Lydia McGrew 4. Einstein, Relativityand Absolute Simultaneity Edited by William Lane Craigand Quentin Smith 5. Epistemology Modalized Kelly Becker 6. Truth and Speech Acts Greimann & Siegwart 7. Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge A Sense of the World Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, and Luca Pocci 8. A Pragmatist Philosophyof Democracy Communities of Inquiry Robert B. Talisse 9. Aesthetics and Material Beauty Aesthetics Naturalized Jennifer A. McMahon 10. Aesthetic Experience Edited by Richard Shusterman and Adele Tomlin 11. Real Essentialism David S. Oderberg 12. To be announced 13. Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy Heather Dyke 14. Practical Identityand Narrative Agency Edited by Catriona Mackenzie and Kim Atkins Practical Identity and Narrative Agency Edited by Catriona Mackenzie and Kim Atkins Firstpublished2008 byRoutledge 270MadisonAve,NewYork,NY10016 SimultaneouslypublishedintheUK byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” #2008Taylor&FrancisGroup TypesetinTimesNewRoman byTaylor&FrancisBooks PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby BiddlesLtd,King’sLynn Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproduced orutilizedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans, nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording, orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissionin writingfromthepublishers. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Acatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenrequested BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN 0-203-93783-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN13:978-0-415-95847-9(hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-93783-9 (ebk) Contents Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgments xii 1 Introduction: Practical identity and narrative agency 1 CATRIONAMACKENZIE Part I Personal identity and continuity 29 2 Staying alive: Personal continuation and a life worth having 31 MARYASCHECHTMAN 3 Personal identity: Practical or metaphysical? 56 CAROLINEWEST 4 Narrative identity and embodied continuity 78 KIMATKINS Part II Practical identity and practical deliberation 99 5 Personal identity management 101 JANBRANSEN 6 Imagination, identity, and self-transformation 121 CATRIONAMACKENZIE 7 Why search for lost time? Memory, autonomy, and practical reason 146 JOHNCHRISTMAN viii Contents Part III Selfhood and normative agency 167 8 The way of the wanton 169 J.DAVIDVELLEMAN 9 Losing one’s self 193 CHESHIRECALHOUN 10 Normative agency 212 JEANETTEKENNETTANDSTEVEMATTHEWS 11 Remorse and moral identity 232 CHRISTOPHERCORDNER Part IV Selfhood, narrative, and time 253 12 Shaping a life: Narrative, time, and necessity 255 GENEVIEVELLOYD 13 How to change the past 269 KARENJONES Index 289 Contributors Kim Atkins is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Universityof Wollongong. She has a special interest in the philosophyof Paul Ricoeur. She is the editor of Self and Subjectivity: A Reader with Commentary (Blackwell) and has published in Journal of Applied Philo- sophy, Philosophy Today, Continental Philosophy Review, and Interna- tional Journal of Philosophical Studies. Jan Bransen is Professor of Philosophy of Behavioral Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has published in a range of editedcollections andjournals,includingEuropeanJournalofPhilosophy, Inquiry, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Jan Bransen is founder of Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action. Cheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona. Her publications include Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet (Oxford University Press), Setting the Moral Com- pass: Essays by Women Philosophers (Oxford University Press), and essays in Ethics, Hypatia, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Political Phi- losophy, and Philosophyand Public Affairs. She is series editor for Oxford University Press’s Studies in Feminist Philosophy. JohnChristmanisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyandPoliticalScienceat Penn State University. He is the authorof The Myth of Property (Oxford University Press) and Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge)andistheeditorofTheInner Citadel:Essays on Individual Autonomy (Oxford University Press) and the co-editor with Joel Anderson of Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays (Cambridge University Press). Christopher Cordner is Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University ofMelbourne.HisbookEthicalEncounter(Palgrave)explores the ways in which our moral concepts and capacities are informed by what is disclosed in immediate encounter between human beings. Christopher Cordner also contributes to health ethics and the ethics of
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