Philosophical Accounts of Personal Identity

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics

Organizer Name

Alex Hall

Organizer Affiliation

Clayton State Univ.

Presider Name

Alex Hall

Paper Title 1

Individuation and the Afterlife according to Some Muslim Philosophers and Aquinas

Presenter 1 Name

Stephen R. Ogden

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Yale Univ.

Paper Title 2

Albertus Magnus and the Early Thirteenth-Century Development of the Personal, Individual Agent of Thought

Presenter 2 Name

Matthew Robinson

Presenter 2 Affiliation

St. Thomas Univ.

Paper Title 3

Material Immortality in al-Farabi

Presenter 3 Name

Joshua M. Hall

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Samford Univ.

Start Date

9-5-2014 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I Ackley 104

Description

Papers consider medieval philosophical accounts of personal identity. These accounts are closely linked with speculation regarding the fate of the soul after death, helping to flesh out the medieval notion of what it is of us that survives the transition into the afterlife and why this and not some other aspect of what we take to be the self.

Alex Hall, Clayton State University