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The thesis of the article is that accepting a psychological criterion¹ of personal identity is not incompatible with identifying persons with their bodies. One problem addressed is that of avoiding nested persons, of explaining why heads and other brain-containing parts of persons do not qualify as persons themselves.

1. Introduction;
2. The Two-Thinkers Objection;
3. The Relation between Human Persons and Their Bodies