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dc.contributor.authorRudd, Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-02T16:05:32Z
dc.date.available2011-02-02T16:05:32Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationRudd , A 2005 , ' Narrative, expression and mental substance ' , Inquiry , vol. 48 , no. 5 , pp. 413-435 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00201740500241870
dc.identifier.issn0020-174X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 187445
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 75923176-ca77-41e7-a2d7-6a041f1e3691
dc.identifier.otherdspace: 2299/5280
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 33750046048
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/5280
dc.descriptionOriginal article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis Group [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
dc.description.abstractThis paper starts from the debate between proponents of a neo-Lockean psychological continuity view of personal identity, and defenders of the idea that we are simple mental substances. Each party has valid criticisms of the other; the impasse in the debate is traced to the Lockean assumption that substance is only externally related to its attributes. This suggests the possibility that we could develop a better account of mental substance if we thought of it as having an internal relation to its states. I suggest that we may be able to do this by relying on the notion of expression. In developing this idea I draw heavily on aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophical psychology, while also developing and criticizing Strawson's account of persons and recent work by Lynne Baker. I conclude by arguing that mental substance, understood in this way, can only be grasped in narrative terms; substantialist and narrative accounts of personal identity, far from being opposed, are mutually supporting and require one another to be coherent.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInquiry
dc.titleNarrative, expression and mental substanceen
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Humanities
dc.contributor.institutionSocial Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionPhilosophy
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
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