Memory, Experiential Memory, and Personal Identity

Abstract

[first paragraph] In a number of passages to be found across his wntmgs, Ayer has turned his attention to a claim which consistently found favour within that philosophical tradition to which he has always, and justly, seen himself as standing in natural succession. The tradition is, of course, that of classical British empiricism, and the claim is the claim that memory (or some particular type of memory) provides an adequate criterion of personal identity.