Introduction, by Amelie O. Rorty 1. Survival and Identity, by David Lewis 2. Survival, by Georges Ray 3. The Importance of Being Identical, by John Perry 4. Lewis, Perry, and What Matters, by Derek Parfit 5. Embodiment and Behavior, by Sydney Shoemaker 6. Lock, Butler, and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind, by David Wiggins 7. Conditions of Personhood, by Daniel Dennett 8. Persons, Character, and Morality by Bernard Williams 9. Rational Homunculi, by Ronald de Sousa 10. Identification and Externality, by Harry Frankfurt 11. Self-Identity and Self-Regard, by Terence Penelhum 12. Responsibility for Self, by Charles Taylor A Literary Postscript: Characters, Persons, Selves, Individuals, by Amelie O. Rorty Bibliography