In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging debate over personal identity: what if selves are stories?
Up until then, philosophers trying to understand what selves are and how they can persist across time had mostly been looking for connections between psychological states at different points in time - say, an experience on Monday and a memory of that experience on Tuesday. If the experience and the memory are connected in the right sort...
