Anthony Collins on the Emergence of Consciousness and Personal Identity
Philosophy Compass March 1, 2009 William Uzgalis
Abstract The correspondence between Samuel Clarke and Anthony Collins of 1706–8, while not well known, is a spectacularly good debate between a dualist and a materialist over the possibility of giving a materialist account of consciousness and personal identity. This article puts the Clarke Collins Correspondence in a broader context in which it can be better appreciated, noting that it is...