First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity

In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting gathers her previously published essays taking Aristotle's theories on friendship as a springboard to engage with contemporary philosophical work on personal identity and moral psychology.

Whiting examines three themes throughout the collection, the first being psychic contingency, or the belief that the psychological structures chara...