Memory and persons

Philosophical Review 112 (3):289-337 (2003)
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Abstract

I want to reflect on some functions of memory and their relations to traditional issues about personal identity. I try to elicit ways in which having memory, with its presupposition of agent identity over time, is integral to being a person, indeed to having a representational mind.

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