“I Just Wanna Get My Self, or My Story, Back Again”: Narrative Identity, Neurosurgical Intervention, and the Temporary Change Argument

摘要

When dealing with identity—whether numerical or narrative— a neglected type of argument might be called a “temporary change” argument. The argument earns its name from the fact that it examines cases where an individual appears to undergo “change” in some way—perhaps trivial, perhaps dramatic—but then, over time, this change appears to be reversed, and hence was merely “temporary.”