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Agency and Reductionism about the Self

The goal of this chapter is to provide an opinionated overview of the psychologically based account of personal identity and the role of agency within such an account. I describe the essential points of the psychological criterion of personal identity. Then, I discuss how the psychological criterion is related to the Reductionist View of personal identity and whether it is committed to what Derek Parfit names the Extreme Claim. I further discuss how the agency-based views of personal identity can be accommodated within Derek Parfit’s psychologically based view of personal identity. I end the chapter by discussing how an agency- based view, as most notably developed by Christine Korsgaard, could be used to vindicate practical concerns that are traditionally related to personal identity.

Personal identity ; agency-based views ; psychological criterion ; the Extreme Claim ; Reductionism about the self

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