A reply to critics

Abstract

In this essay, I reply to the main objections from Maria Sekatskaya, Igor Gasparov and Sergei Levin to my previous paper, Benefits of a narrative approach to personal identity. In my reply to Sekatskaya, I accept that the narrative approach does not always provide means for reidentification in the duplication scenario, but I argue that reidentification is not necessary for the theory of personal identity. In my reply to Gasparov, I argue that character and personhood can be secondary in relation to the narrative; I also provide details for the criteria of narrative presentation. In my reply to Levin, I agree that the narrative approach is an anti-realist approach to personal identity, but I suggest that this is consistent with the four-dimensional concept of person.