Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Aims and Issues PART I: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND 1. The 'Ontological' View of the Self: Scholastic and Cartesian Conceptions 2. Metaphysical Alternatives. Conceptions of Identity, Morality, and the Afterlife PART II: LOCKE'S SUBJECTIVIST REVOLUTION 3. Locke on Identity, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness 4. Locke on Personal Identity: Consciousness, Memory, and Self-Concern PART III: PROBLEMS WITH LOCKE. CRITIQUE AND DEFENCE 5. The Notion of a Person and the Role of Consciousness and Memory 6.

The Charge of Circularity and the Argument from the Transitivity of Identity PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY AND IMMATERIALIST METAPHYSICS OF THE MIND 7. The Soul, Human and Universal 8. Relating to the Soul and Pure Thought, Original Sin and the Afterlife PART V: SUSBSTANCE, APPERCEPTION AND IDENTITY: LEIBNIZ, WOLFF, AND BEYOND 9. Individuation and Identity, Apperception and Consciousness in Leibniz and Wolff 10. Beyond Leibniz and Wolff. From Immortality to the Necessary "Unity of the Subject" 11. From the Critique of Wolffian Apperception to the Idea of the "Pre-existence" of Self-Consciousness PART VI: BUNDLES AND SELVES: HUME IN CONTEXT 12. Hume and the Belief in Personal Identity 13.

Hume and the Bundle View of the Self CONCLUSION: BEYOND HUME AND WOLFF BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.