Name: A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
ISBN: 9780915144532

John Perry

"Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination." -- David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College

A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

Michelle Xu

This was my second philosophical book. The first was Phaedo. Compared to Phaedo, I did not like Perry's arguments as much. Additionally, I wasn't sure what to get out of the book in the end. With the sudden ending, I was not sure what to take away from it. Does Perry want us to believe Cohen and Miller? Or Weirob? In either case, the abrupt ending and even Cohen's curiosity at whether the argument was flawed to begin with made me question the argument as a whole.

I did, however, find this to be an easier read than Phaedo.