I've used chapter 3 (Outliving Oneself) of Brison's Aftermath to cover some of these issues with great results.  As she notes there, the amount of time and energy given to "increasingly gruesome and high-tech thought experiments involving fusion, fission, freezing, dissolution, reconstitution, and/or teletransportation" (38) is curious when compared to how little philosophical work has been devoted to considering the accounts of actual survivors of trauma who report a disruption in personal identity.  

As for publishers of anthologies, it would be foolish not to include the Brison piece in a collection on philosophy of mind as the examples she uses there resonate so much more deeply with students, making it infinitely easier to demonstrate to them the ways in which philosophy can actually help us to understand something of importance.

GP jr.


--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Garry, Ann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Garry, Ann <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: suggestions about feminist texts/papers
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 3:59 PM
> I would love to see this list--can it be ON list rather than
> off?
> Whenever I complain to publishers about the lack of
> feminist work in
> intro anthologies, they always say "well, tell the
> editor what to put
> in."  Suggestions that might arise in answer to
> Carolyn's question would
> be a good start!
> Ann Garry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feminist ethics and social theory
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carolyn
> McLeod
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: suggestions about feminist texts/papers
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm asking on behalf of my colleague (and partner)
> whether you could 
> send to him your suggestions of feminist articles/book
> chapters/etc. on 
> (i) the mind-body problem; (ii) the (traditional) problem
> of personal 
> identity and (iii) freewill and moral responsibility
> (arising out of the
> 
> literature on Frankfurt and the Principle of Alternate
> Possibilities)? I
> 
> think I've convinced him to include more feminist work
> in his courses!
> 
> Please reply off-list to Andrew Botterell:
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> Thanks.
> Carolyn
> 
> -- 
> Carolyn McLeod
> Associate Professor
> University of Western Ontario
> Department of Philosophy
> Talbot College 410 
> London, ON
> N6A 3K7
> CANADA
> 
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