Personal identity: complex or simple?

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Introduction Part I. Framing the Question: 1. Chitchat on personal identity David Barnett 2. In search of the simple view Eric T. Olson 3. Personal identity, indeterminacy, and obligation Ryan Wasserman 4. Personal identity and its perplexities Harold W. Noonan Part II. Arguments for and against Simplicity: 5. How to determine which is the true theory of personal identity Richard Swinburne 6. Against simplicity Sydney Shoemaker 7. The probable simplicity of personal identity E. J. Lowe 8. Reply to E. J. Lowe Sydney Shoemaker 9. The non-descriptive individual nature of conscious beings Martine Nida-Rumelin Part III. Reconsidering Simplicity: 10. Personal identity: a not-so-simple simple view Lynne Rudder Baker 11. Is 'person' a sortal term? Christian Kanzian 12. Materialism, dualism, and 'simple' theories of personal identity Dean Zimmerman 13. The morphing block and diachronic personal identity Hud Hudson References Index.