CHUANG LIU. Philosophy and History of Science, Methodology of Science, Philosophy of Physics. Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Social Science

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1 CHUANG LIU Department of Philosophy 330 Griffin-Floyd Hall P.O. Box University of Florida Gainesville, FL Tel: (352) Fax: (352) APPOINTMENTS Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida ( present) Shanxi Scholar 1 (with Shanxi University) ( ) Yangtze River Scholar 2 (with Tsinghua University) ( ) Visiting Fellow, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics, London (Michaelmas Term, 1999) Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida ( ) Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida ( ) AREA OF SPECIALIZATION Philosophy and History of Science, Methodology of Science, Philosophy of Physics AREA OF COMPETENCE EDUCATION Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Social Science 1991 Ph. D. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 1987 M. A. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 1982 B. S. Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China 1 Granted and funded by Shanxi Province, China. 2 Granted by the Ministry of Education of China and funded by the Lee Foundation in Hong Kong.

2 AWARDS 2 Research Fund (UF) (~$145,000) Shanxi Scholar (~ $150,000 in RMB) Yangtze River Scholar (~ $30,000 in RMB) National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Grant: SES, NSF (National) 2007 ($72,494) Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund (UF) ($5,000) National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Grant: STS, NSF (National) 2000 ($63,845) CLAS Research Fund (UF) 2000 ($4,500) FAH Scholarship Enhancement Fund (UF) 1998 ($5,000) DSR Research Development Award (UF) 1994 ($9,000) DSR Research Development Award (UF) 1992 ($11,000) National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar Award (National) 1992 ($8.000) REFEREE FOR JOURNALS & PUBLISHERS Philosophy of Science The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Synthese Erkenntnis Studies for the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics International Studies in the Philosophy of Science Foundations of Physics Dao National Science Foundation (fellowship proposals) Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press

3 PUBLICATIONS 3 Books 2016 Substance and Method: Studies in Philosophy of Science Singapore: World Scientific Publishing 2013 Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science Singapore: World Scientific Publishing (edited with G. C. Guo) 2002 The Logic of Thermo-Statistical Physics Berlin: Springer-Verlag (with G. Emch) Articles (refereed) Idealization, Confirmation, and Scientific Realism, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming) Re-inflating the Conception of Scientific Representation, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29: Symbolic vs. Modelistic Elements in Scientific Modeling, Theoria 30: Invariance and Scientific Representation, Frontiers in Philosophy in China, 10: Models, Fiction, and Fictional Models, G. C. Guo and C. Liu (eds.) The Proceedings of SEMS 2012: Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science, World Scientific, Singapore, Deflationism on Scientific Representation, V. Karakostas and D. Dieks (eds.), EPSA11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Theme, in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, SAPERE 2. L. Magnani and P. Li (eds.), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp Variations on a Theme by Duhem, translated to Chinese, Review of Science and Culture (Beijing, China). 9(5): TRHY: A new ontology for a quantum world? in Journal for East-West Thought, (IAEWS: Pomona, CA, 2012) vol. 1, no. 2, A Fresh Look at Anti-Realism (II), Review of Science and Culture. 7(4): 5-25 (in Chinese) A Fresh Look at Anti-Realism (I), Review of Science and Culture. 7(3): (in Chinese).

4 Answers to Six Questions, in Philosophy and Physics 5+1 Questions, J.Ferret and J.Symons (eds), Automatic Press/VIP, Confirming Idealized Theories and Scientific Realism, Duoyuan: Philosophical Review (in Chinese), How We May Be Free from Physics, Chinese Journal of Foreign Philosophy, 20: What Is the Environmental Problem? Science and Culture Review, 5 (2): (in Chinese) Why did Planck Support Special Relativity, Science and Culture Review, 4 (2): 5-15 (in Chinese) Idealization: Getting Scientific Laws by Carving Nature at Its Joints, Chinese Journal of Foreign Philosophy 17: Review: Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (CUP, 2003) International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 19: (with G. Emch) Explaining Quantum Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36: Approximations, Idealizations, and Models in Statistical Mechanics, Erkenntnis 60: Laws and Models in a Theory of Idealization, Synthese 138: The Possibility of Unifying Gravity and Quantum Gauge Fields, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17: Classical Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Philosophy of Science 70(S): S1219-S Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Chance in Classical World, Philosophy of Science 70: Ming-Jia (the Logician) and Zeno: A Comparative Study, in Bo Mou ed. Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Lit.) pp Infinite Systems in SM Explanations: Thermodynamic Limit, Renormalization (semi-) Groups, and Irreversibility, Philosophy of Science 68(S): S

5 2000. Coins and Electrons: A Unified Understanding of Probabilistic Objects, in Logic, Probability and Science, ed. N. Shanks, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities, vol. 71, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp (including a commentary by Steven French and author's reply) Explaining the Emergence of Cooperative Phenomena, Philosophy of Science 66(S): S92-S Approximation, Idealization, and the Laws of Nature, Synthese 118: Decoherence and Idealization in Quantum Measurement, in Idealization in Contemporary Physics, ed. N. Shanks, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities, vol. 63, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp Theories and Models II: Issues and Applications, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 12: Invariance of Representations and Spacetime Realism, Taiwan Journal for Philosophy and History of Science 5: Theories and Models I: the Semantic View Revisited, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11: Potential, Propensity and Categorical Realism, Erkenntnis 45: Realism and Spacetime: Of Arguments Against Metaphysical Realism and Manifold Realism, Philosophia Naturalis 33: Gauge Invariance, Cauchy Problem, Indeterminism, and Symmetry Breaking, Philosophy of Science 63(S): S71-S Planck and the Special Theory of Relativity, in the Proceedings of The Emergence of Modern Physics, Berlin'95. Uinversità Degli Studi di Pavia, pp Holism and Particularism: A Lesson from Classical and Quantum Physics, Journal for General Philosophy of Science 26 : Is There a Relativistic Thermodynamics: A Case Study of the Meaning of Special Relativity, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 25: The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and the Reality of Wave Packets, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45: The History of Relativistic Thermodynamics as Originated and Developed in the Study of Black-Body Radiation, in W. Schröder (ed.), The Earth and the

6 Universe: Festschrift in Honor of Hans-Jürgen Treder. Bremen-Rönnebeck (Germany): IAGA, pp The Arrow of Time in Quantum Gravity, Philosophy of Science 60: Einstein and Relativistic Thermodynamics in 1952, British Journal for the History of Science 25: Abstracts Fictionalism on Models and Fictional Models in Science, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 88 (April 2016) Chance and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 74 (Jan. 2002), Approximate Enough and Idealization, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 71 (Jan. 1998), Decoherence and Quantum Probability: An Objection to the Decoherence Theory of Quantum Measurement, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 69 (Feb. 1997), Propensity and Quantum Reality, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. 69 (Dec. 1995), The Necessary A Posteriori in Ethical Naturalism, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 68 (Feb. 1995), Gauge Invariance and Its Metaphysical Nature, Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Planck and the Special Theory of Relativity, Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft 7/1995, Realism and Spacetime: Of Arguments Against Metaphysical Realism and Manifold Realism, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 68 (Dec. 1994), CONFERENCE PAPERS (refereed) Fictionalism on Models and Fictional Models in Science, given at the Pacific APA2016, March 30 April 3, San Francisco, CA Against a New Fictionalism on Scientific Models, presented at the 17 th National Conference on Philosophy of Science, Shanghai, August 14-16,

7 (with W. Wang) Scientific Modeling and Fictionalism, presented at the 15 th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, August Anti-Deflationism in Scientific Representation, presented at the 3 rd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Athens, October Variations on a Theme by Duhem, presented at the 3 rd International Coference on Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2011), Guangzhou, China, May Nationalized Morality: Rationalist or Sentimentalist? presented at the International Conference on Value and Morality, Beijing, China, Oct Naturalized Morality: Explanation or Justification? outline presented at the Oxford Workshop on Evolution and Morality, Oxford, UK, Jan Idealization and Scientific Realism, invited lecture at the international conference: Idealization, Abstraction, and Scientific Methods, at Departamento de Filosofia, Uiversidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, July Quantum measurement as spontaneous symmetry breaking, invited lecture at the international conference: Symmetry as a Modern Scientific Concept: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, at the Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, from 11 Mar 2008 through 14 Mar The emergence of the classical world at the thermodynamic limit, invited lecture at Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: Explanation in Physics, Boston University, April Chance and Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking, presented at the APA Eastern Division meeting, Philadelphia, December Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Its Meaning from a Simple Mechanical Model, presented at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Milwaukee, November Infinite Systems in SM Explanations: Thermodynamic Limit, Renormalization (semi-) Groups, and Irreversibility, presented at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Vancouver, BC, November Explaining the Emergence of Cooperative Phenomena, presented at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Kansas City, October

8 1998. Approximate Enough and Idealization, presented at the APA Pacific Division meeting, Los Angeles, March Decoherence and Quantum Probability, presented at the APA Central Division meeting, Pittsburgh, April Ming Chia and Zeno: A Critical Note, presented at the APA Eastern Division meeting (the ACPA group program session), Atlanta, December Gauge Invariance, Cauchy Problem, Indeterminism, and Symmetry Breaking, presented at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Cleveland, October Models and the Semantic Approach, presented at the 22nd annual meeting of Philosophy of Science at the International University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April Propensity and Quantum Reality, presented at the APA Eastern Division meeting, New York City, December Gauge Invariance and its Metaphysical Nature, presented at the 10 th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, Italy, August The Necessary A Posteriori Truth in Ethical Naturalism, presented at the APA Central Division meeting, Chicago, April Why Did Planck Defend Special Relativity? presented at the joint conference of APS and DPG "The Emergence of Modern Physics" in Berlin, Germany, March Realism and Substantivalism: Of Arguments against Metaphysical Realism and Manifold Substantivalism, presented at the APA Eastern Division meeting, Boston, December Realism and Substantivalism: Of Arguments against Metaphysical Realism and Manifold Substantivalism, presented at the Society for Exact Philosophy annual conference, Austin, TX, May Particularism and Holism Revisited, presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual conference, Atlanta, GA, April Planck and The Special Theory of Relativity, presented at the History of Science Society annual conference, Santa Fe, NM, November Commentary on R. M. Hare's A New Kind of Moral Realism? presented at the Florida Philosophical Association annual meeting, Tampa, FL, October.

9 Of the Statistical Interpretation of the Entropy Law and Its Bearing on the Anisotropy of Time, presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual conference, Memphis, TN, March. INVITED LECTURES (mostly international) Foundations of Quantum Physics, Pitt-Tsinghua Lecture Series (five-lectures), Beijing, China, July 11-13, New Works on Scientific Representation I, a lecture given at the Institute of History of Natural Science, Academia Seneca, October New Works on Scientific Representation II, a lecture given at the Institute of History of Natural Science, Academia Seneca, October Many Worlds and Consciousness, a presentation at the Conference of Mind and Cognitive Science, Shanghai, May Many Worlds and Consciousness, a talk given at the Beijing Philosophy of Science Forum, Department of Philosophy, Renmin University, Beijing, May Fictionalism, Realism, and Empiricism on Scientific Models, a talk given at Department of Philosophy, Zhongshan University, China, May Free Will in a Quantum World, a talk given at the Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, June Models, Fiction, and Duhem, a talk given at School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June Models and Fiction II, a talk given at The Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, June Models and Fiction I, a talk given at The Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, June Models, Fiction, and Duhem, a talk given at Department of Philosophy, Shandong University, Jinan, China, June Philosophers and Philosophy, a talk given at Department of Philosophy, Shandong University, Jinan, China, June Models, Fiction, and Duhem, a talk given at Department of Philosophy, the Graduate University of Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, June Scientific Representation, a workshop for junior faculty given at Renmin University, Beijing, China, May 27 June Professional Writing in Philosophy of Science, a workshop given at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May

10 Models, Fiction, and Duhem, a talk given at Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, May Models, Fiction, and Duhem, a paper given at the International Conference on Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science held at Taiyuan, China, September Reasons and Persons, a workshop given at Renmin University (Summer Workshop Program 2012), Beijing, China, July * Can Scientific Models Be Fictional? a talk given at The Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, May Knowledge and Luck, a talk given at The Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, May Issues in Contemporary Epistemology, an intensive course given at School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, June ª Scientific Representation, a workshop at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 21 June Naturalism without Naturalization, a talk given at The Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, Oct Relativism Revisited, a paper presented at The Fourth National Conference on Philosophical Problems in Natural Sciences, held in Remin University, Beijing, China, July Naturalism without Naturalization, a talk given at Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, July Free Will in a Quantum World: The Latest Results, a talk given at The Center of History of Natural Science, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, July Free Will and Agent Causation, a talk given at The Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Zhejiang University, Hongzhou, China, June Naturalism without Naturalization, a talk given at The Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June Knowledge and Luck: an updated discussion on some epistemological issues, a talk given at the School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, June Idealized Confirmation and Its Implications on Scientific Realism, a talk given at the Humanities Center, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China, May , Free Will and Agent Causation, a talk given at The Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanking University, Nanjing, China, May 27.

11 2010. Knowledge and Luck: an updated discussion on some epistemological issues, a talk given at the College of Liberal Arts, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, May Naturalism without Naturalization, a talk given at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May Confirming Idealized Theory and Scientific Realism, a talk given in Philosophy Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, March Gettier s Problem and An Internalist Solution, a talk given in Philosophy Department, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, March A Quantum Model for Free Will, a talk given in the Center for Mind and Intelligence, Yangming University, Taipei, Taiwan, March , The Relationship between STS and Philosophy of Science, a roundtable discussion held at The STS Society of the Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan, March Philosophy of Science Today, a talk given at the Philosophy Department, Shuzhou University, Shuzhou, China, June What Does It Take to Make Contributions in Philosophy Internationally? three talks given at The Philosophy Department, Renmin University, Beijing, June Knowledge and Luck: A Discussion of The Gettier Problem, invited lecture at the Philosophy Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, June Philosophy of Science Today, a talk given at the Institute of Philosophy, The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, June Topics in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, a workshop at the Philosophy Department, Beijing University, Beijing, May 12 June Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science, a workshop at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 15 June Approximation and Likelihood, a lecture given at the award ceremony for the Yangtze River Scholar ( ), the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May Knowledge and Luck: A Discussion of The Gettier Problem, invited lecture at the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, May 8. 11

12 2008. Classical world at the limit of infinity, invited lecture at the workshop Foundations of Physics, at the Center for Science and Technology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, Sept Foundations of quantum physics, invited lecture series at the Philosophy Department, the Central China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, June Conceptual Relativism Revisited: Kuhn, Davidson and SSK, the Philosophy Salon Lecture at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June Lectures on selected themes in epistemology and philosophy of science, invited lecture series at the Department of Philosophy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, May 30 June Issues concerning the compatibility of free will with indeterminism, invited paper at the conference: Philosophical Issues in Science and Technology, Nanning, Guanxi Pronvince, China, December Issues in philosophy of physics, a seminar at the Center for Science and Technology Studies, Shanxi University, Shanxi Province, China, December Free will in a quantum world, invited lecture at the Center for Science and Technology Studies, Shanxi University, Shanxi Province, China, December Free will in a quantum world, invited lecture at the Department of Philosophy, Shun Ye-Shian University, Canton, China, November Problems concerning free will in an indeterministic world, invited lecture at the Philosophy Department, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, November "Issues in philosophy of physics," a seminar at the Philosophy Department, the Middle China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, November Free will, determinism, and indeterminism, the 139th Lecture of Science and Humanities, delivered at the Middle China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, November Free will, determinism, and indeterminism, invited lecture at the Department of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, November Free will in a quantum world, invited lecture at the opening ceremony for the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, September 14.

13 2007. Philosophical issues in the natural and social sciences, invited lecture series delivered at Philosophy Department, Beijing University, Beijing, China, September - December Free will and quantum physics, invited lecture series delivered at Philosophy Department, Beijing University, Beijing, China, September - December Topics on Idealization, invited talk at the Workshop: The Formal and the Empirical: Tension in Scientific Knowledge, at IZWT (Centre for STS), the University of Wuppertal, Germany, May 30 - June Preliminaries on an algebraic solution to the quantum measurement problem, invited talk at 15th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, at the University of Leeds, UK, March Confirming idealized theories and scientific realism, invited talk at the LSE - Pittsburgh Joint Conference Confirmation, Induction and Science, London School of Economic, March Idealization and Laws of Nature, Lecture at Department of Philosophy, the University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, June 8, Quantum Logic and Postmodernism, Talk at a joint session with Department of Philosophy and Department of Economics, the University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, June 10, Problems and Issues in Philosophy of Science, Lecture series at Philosophy Department, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, May On the Concept of Carving Nature at its Joints, the Humanities & Science Lecture, invited talk at the College of Philosophy and Humanities, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, May Coins and Electrons: a Unified Understanding of Probabilistic Objects, the Philosophy Salon Lecture at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May Approximation and its Measures, the History and Philosophy of Science Lecture, invited talk at the Department of Philosophy, Beijing University, Beijing, May Approximation and Its Measures, invited talk at the Philosophy Department, Wuhan University, Wuhan, June Chance and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, invited talk at the Philosophy Department, Central China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, June 7.

14 Parfit and Foundations of Social Sciences, Lecture series at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 31 - June Approximation and Its Measures, invited talk at Séminaire du REHSEIS: histoire et philosophie de la physique ( ): Les raisons de l'à-peu-prés, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot, November Laws and Carving Nature at its Joints, invited talk at at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June Coordination of Space and Unity of Science, invited talk at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June Laws and Carving Nature at its Joints, invited talk at the Department of Philosophy, Beijing University, Beijing, June Approximation, Idealization and Carving Nature at Its Joints, the Popper Seminar Lecture at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics, London, November Gravity and Electromagnetism under the Gauge Program, invited talk at the Workshop on the Philosophical Significance of Gauge Theories in Physics in the Philosophy Department at the University of Arizona, March The Properties of the Quantum World, invited talk at the Institute of Philosophy & Cognitive Science Center, the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, June Propensity and Quantum Reality, a talk given at the Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, January, Why is Quantum Reality Paradoxical? a talk given at the Department of Philosophy, Jacksonville University, March, 27. National Workshops NEH Summer Seminar, Peter Achinstein: Methodological Debates in 19th Century Physics. June - August, 1992, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

15 COURSES TAUGHT 15 Graduate Seminars PHI 5405 Philosophy of Science PHI 5934 Scientific Explanation PHI 5934 Laws of Nature PHI 5365 Epistemology PHI 5456 Philosophy of Social Science PHI 5136 Symbolic Logic PHI 6406 Laws and Models in Science PHI 6406 Foundations of Physics PHI 6406 Unity of Science PHI 5935 Pro-Seminar (required for first-year grads) PHI 6406 Determinism and Laws of Nature PHI 5456 Nature of Rationality Undergraduate Courses PHI 3400 Philosophy of Natural Science PHI 3420 Philosophy of Social Science PHI 3300 Theory of Knowledge PHI 4900 Special Topics in Philosophy of Science PHI 4542 Philosophy of Space and Time PHI 4930 Chinese Philosophy PHI 2403 Science, Myth, and Value PHI 2100 Logic PHI 2105 Introduction to Philosophy PHI 3930 Rationality and Personal Identity