Locke on Personal Identity Part 1

Part 1 of 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 (Yale University) explores some of the puzzles and problems of personal identity that arise from the revolutionary work of the philosopher John Locke.

Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University

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

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