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Bernard Williams Problems of the Self (Toronto; Macmillan Co. of Canada) $15. Pp. vii, 267.1
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 1974
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1 All bracketed page references are to this book.
2 Here we have deliberately taken just examples which refer to the future, to avoid muddying the waters with any problems about the possibility of a present object being identical with any other past object than the one it actually was.
3 The issues of whether imagining oneself to be possible past or future persons can be supposition-free, what is entailed by the possibilities such imagination cases establish, and whether one can imagine a future person with whom one imagines one's identity to be undecidable, are discussed further in Brook, J.A. 'Imagination, Possibility and Personal Identity', American Philosophical Quarterly, XII (1975), 185-198.Google Scholar
4 Williams also agrees: APB?, pp. 75.
5 For what little Williams says on this remarkable suggestion, cf. APB?, pp. 80–1.
6 Cf. especially Mind, Vol. 65, 1956 pp. 507–509.
7 Cf. Rescher, N. The Logic of Commands, (Methuen, 1966) pp. 82 ff.Google Scholar