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Title: Justine McGIll
Locke on personal identity and accountability: a tale of severed appendages
Locke illustrates his theory of personal identity with some striking
examples involved severed limbs. They involve suppositions which, in
Locke’s own assessment, “may appear strange.” In this paper I explore the
implications for our understanding of personal responsibility of Locke’s
suggestion that a little finger might conceivably take the consciousness
and therefore the responsible identity of a person with it when it is
parted from the rest of the body. I connect Locke’s theory of identity with
his theory of property, and make a reading of a film by Michael Haneke,
Caché (Hidden), in order to explore the relevance of Locke’s strange
suppositions to our understanding of responsibility in the era of
post-colonial politics and massive global inequities in the distribution of
wealth.
A warning to regular attendees of the Current Projects Seminar: after this
paper, you may never hear the request to raise your appendages in quite the
same way again.
When: Mon Mar 29 1pm – 2:30pm Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: University of Sydney Philosophy common room
Calendar: Current Projects
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