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WHITING, J., First, Second, and Other Selves. Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity. Oxford University Press, 2016. 274p. Hardback. These essays are long and densely argued, defying easy summary. But they are extremely rewarding and repay careful study...Whiting is engaged in dialogue with Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Sydney Shoemaker, Derek Parfit, Annette Baier, and Terence Irwin, among others, and one comes away with a strong sense of her as a philosophical interlocutor. Her essays on personal identity and friendship are among the most important work on these topics in the last three decades. Her defense of a broadly psychological reductionist conception of personal identity is a worthy successor to the contributions of Shoemaker and Parfit, and her ethocentric conception of friendship and self-love is an important and original contribution to the literature on love and friendship. Anyone interested in these philosophical topics will profit from reading these essays together. David O. Brink, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |a 1/3/17 (Publisher's information). € 125.01 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780199967919