Meeting of the Aristotelian Society held at Senate House, University of London, on 9 May 2011 at 4:15 p.m.
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XI—Intention and the Self
Article first published online: 23 DEC 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00313.x
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)
Volume 111, Issue 3pt3, pages 325–351, October 2011
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Madden, R. (2011), XI—Intention and the Self. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), 111: 325–351. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00313.x
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- Issue published online: 23 DEC 2011
- Article first published online: 23 DEC 2011
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Does intention presuppose personal identity, and what relevance does the issue have for the contemporary personal identity debate? I distinguish three ways in which intention might be said to presuppose personal identity, focusing mainly on causal presupposition and content presupposition. I argue that intention often causally presupposes personal identity. I argue that intention does not content-presuppose personal identity. The former result is a potential basis for a Butlerian circularity objection to Lockean theories of personal identity. The latter result undercuts a prominent Lockean reply to ‘the thinking animal’ objection which has recently supplanted traditional Butlerian circularity objections in the personal identity debate.