Persons

References and further reading

	Cassam, Q. (1992) ‘Reductionism and First-Person Thinking’, in D. Charles and K. Lennon (eds) Reduction, Explanation, and Realism, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Another useful critique of reductionism.)
	Cassam, Q. (1993) ‘Parfit on Persons’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1993 (1): 17–37. (Useful critique of reductionism.)
	Evans, G. (1982) The Varieties of Reference, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Groundwork for the discussion in Section 6 of McDowell. 6.6 and 7.5 are especially relevant.)
	Garrett, B.J. (1990) ‘Persons and Human Beings’, Logos 11: 47–56. (More detailed discussion of the issues raised in §2 and §3 above.)
	Garrett, B.J. (1991) ‘Personal Identity and Reductionism’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 361–373. (As with the 1990 article, a more detailed examination of the issues discussed in §2 and §3.)
	Hume, D. (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. (Classic statement of the ‘bundle theory’ of the self outlined above in §3.)
	Locke, J. (1689) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. J. Yolton, London: Dent, 1961. (A subtle discussion of persons, thinking substances, and consciousness. Book II, chapter 27 contains the relevant passages, as cited in §1 above.)
	McDowell, J.H. (1993) ‘Reductionism and the First Person’, in J. Dancy (ed.) Reading Parfit, Oxford: Blackwell. (A sophisticated attack on reductionism.)