by Michael Della Rocca
Ponder the puzzle of personal identity by way of the thought of John Locke, the great English philosopher.
SERIES
Locke on Personal Identity
MEET YOUR LECTURER
Michael Della Rocca
Michael Della Rocca is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza (Oxford 1996), Spinoza (Routledge 2008), and numerous articles in contemporary metaphysics and in early modern philosophy.
Episodes
EPISODE ONE
Part 1
What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago? Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even give any explanation at all of the persistence of a person? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Michael Della Rocca explores some of the puzzles and problems of personal identity that arise from the revolutionary work of the philosopher John Locke.
EPISODE TWO
Part 2
What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago? Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even given any explanation at all of the persistence of a person? Michael Della Rocca explores some of the puzzles and problems of personal identity that arise from the revolutionary work of the philosopher John Locke.
EPISODE THREE
Part 3
What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago? Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even given any explanation at all of the persistence of a person? Michael Della Rocca explores some of the puzzles and problems of personal identity that arise from the revolutionary work of the philosopher John Locke.
