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Write-up2 (as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12): Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)
Abstract
- This Chapter provides a motivating statement for the study of the particular path through the topic of Personal Identity I intend to pursue and a brief historical survey of the subject to situate my particular stance.
- Why should we care about the topic of Personal Identity? In one sense, this question of “why” hardly needs answering, as it’s just about the most important question to be posed by a reflective (if maybe self-obsessed) person.
- Historically, answers to the question of what Personal Identity consists in have provided – or so Locke hoped – grounds for the possibility of life after death.
- Yet, this second question is difficult, and has had many attempted solutions offered. While some philosophers think there is no problem left to solve, there is no consensus as to the solution. In any case, before we can answer this question we need to clarify it and decide what sort of beings we persons are.
- My favourite paradigm – in the sense of the one I think most likely to be correct, rather than necessary the one I’d like to be correct – is Animalism3. This is the claim that we are human animals and that consequently death is the end of us. This sensible – if to many disappointing – view is only supported by around 17% of philosophers, according to a 2009 poll4 with about twice as many supporting some form of psychological view5.
- In one sense it is just obvious that we are – in some sense of that weasel word “are” – human animals. But then the problem cases kick in – whether actual real-life cases or thought experiments that may never be real-life possibilities.
- About 36% of the respondents in the aforementioned survey though we could survive teletransportation – though 31% thought that the result would be death and Transhumanists6 think we can be uploaded7 to computers, which makes no sense if we are animals.
- So, how did we get to this lack of consensus?
Research Methodology
- Follow this Link8 for a generic statement of how I intend to pursue each Chapter.
- The method is broken down into 16, possibly iterative, stages, some of which have sub-stages.
- Follow this Link9 for my progress dashboard on these tasks.
- The methodology for this Chapter differs somewhat from most other Chapters in that there is little real work, other than background reading and checking that the Thesis as a whole hangs together.
- However, I do need to record while reading the general surveys anything that needs to go into the Historical Survey.
- Another couple of “clearing up” tasks, which can’t be completed until all Chapters have completed Task 7, specific to this Chapter are:-
- To ensure that all the Papers on Identity that I have actually read are referenced somewhere, either be “as utilised” or “as ignored”, in this Thesis.
- To ensure that all the Notes on Identity that I have actually produced are referenced somewhere, either “as utilised” or “as ignored”, in this Thesis.
- This Note10 provides controls on how this process is going. In particular this Table11 lists which Notes are referenced in the Note-lists for which Chapter. I’ve tried to make it so that a particular Note is only listed in one Chapter, though this is not always the case; but it may be referenced in many more (as will be clear from this Table12).
Chapter Introduction13
- Unless kept in check, this chapter could cover more ground than any number of PhD Theses. Its purpose is to prepare the ground – and clear the way – for detailed investigation of the dispute between Animalism and the Constitution View, as well as to demonstrate that I do – at least to some degree – understand more of the wider question than that pursued in detail later.
- There are many fine introductory books – and General Surveys14 – on the topic of Personal Identity, and I don’t intend to compete with them here. What I want to do is situate what I want to say in its historical context. I don’t intend to supply this section with a detailed scholarly apparatus.
- Of course, the modern discussion of Personal Identity has been a series of footnotes to Locke15, so it’s important to demonstrate an understanding of just what Locke thought on the subject, what positive insights he had, and how – in my view – he led us all astray on the subject. One positive aspect of his though is to stress that the topic is a Forensic16 one; it has ethical implications and motivations.
- As noted, historically – and indeed presently – the majority of philosophers (and probably most people) hold to some form of Psychological View17 of personal identity. So, I need to demonstrate an understanding of what this view – or views – is or are. I have a number of Notes on the topic other than the one just cited. The one on Psychology18 is something of a general repository, but should aim to describe just what it is that is deemed so important to us that it is (allegedly) constitutive of what we are. That on the Psychological Criterion19 is supposed to explain how this criterion of identity is intended to work.
- We need to analyse Psychological Continuity20 in general, but the backward form falls prey to reduplication objections. But, it’s difficult to gainsay the psychological view in the face of experiential Forward Psychological Continuity21. If it seems to me that I continue to exist during some adventure during which I’m continually conscious, it would be difficult to deny that I do; or so it seems to me.
- There’s a major sub-plot of the psychological view to do with Memory22, which – while admitted not to be the only psychological element of importance – has been beset with problems since Locke’s days, having been refined into quasi-memory23 to avoid problems with the logic of identity. David Lewis’s Methuselah24 thought-experiment also stresses the memory-criterion.
- Finally, there’s the question of dreamless Sleep25. Just what happens to the persistence of the person during this period, in the absence of either the Body or the Organism defining identity?
- In this section, I should at least briefly discuss the positions of some of the major philosophers who have held neo-Lockean views (or other views not discussed later in this thesis). This would be an endless task, and the ones chosen – Descartes26, Kant27, Leibniz28, David Lewis29, Parfit30 and Wittgenstein31 – are those that happen to have come up.
Note Hierarchy
- General Surveys32
- Locke33
- Forensic Property34
- The Psychological View
- Psychological View35
- Psychology36
- Psychological Criterion37
- Memory40
- Sleep43
- Other Philosophers of Note
- Descartes44
- Kant45
- Leibniz46
- Lewis47
- Parfit48
- Wittgenstein49
See also:-
- My Current Stance50
Main Text: Brief historical survey of the topic of Personal Identity
- General Surveys51
- There are many fine introductory books on this topic, and I don’t intend to compete with them here. What I want to do is situate what I want to say in its historical context. I don’t intend to supply this section with a detailed scholarly apparatus.
- Naturally, there are numerous General Surveys52 that treat of Personal Identity. The majority of these hail from the last century and reflect the concerns of the time, which was basically the dispute between holders of the majority position – the Psychological View53 and those supportive of the Body Criterion54. The latter view, which will be discussed in a the next Chapter, has largely been replaced by the Biological Criterion55 (Animalism56), though the Brain Criterion57 is still somewhat popular in preserving the advantages of both the PV and the Body Criterion.
- Locke58
- Locke was responsible for setting the terms of engagement for the modern discussion of Personal Identity.
- It was Locke who first – or at least most famously – made the distinction between the Person59 and the ‘Man’.
- The ‘Man’ is these days variously cashed out as the Human Being60 or Human Animal61, though for much of the time since Locke the division has been between the Mind62 (thought of as what the person really is) and the Body63.
- It is occasionally claimed that philosophers prefer the mind to the body, and are naturally inclined to take the “mental” side in these debates. While that may be true, the consciousness envisaged is not that of philosophical contemplation, but the everyday sort enjoyed by cobblers and the rest of us. It includes appreciation of all things bodily, and is the ground of everything that matters64 to us.
- Locke was correct in saying that the term Person65 is a forensic concept66; that is, it has to do with ethical matters. He was also right to connect the topic to the then concern with Resurrection67.
- However, while he’s correct to distinguish the person from the “man”, I believe him to be wrong in supposing that the “person” is separable from the “man”.
- Rather, we68 are human beings (human animals69) who happen to have the property70 of being persons, a property that cannot be transferred to some other entity.
- For Locke, the Person71 is individuated by a locus of consciousness and extends as far at that consciousness72 extends. No doubt for most of the time since Locke, this locus of consciousness was thought of as an immaterial Soul73, which makes the thought experiments74 – from Locke’s Prince and Cobbler onwards – easier to credit, though for some time this has been no longer an option for most philosophers.
- All I otherwise have to say on Locke is covered by my final-year BA essay What, if anything, is wrong with Locke’s account of personal identity?75.
- Forensic Property76
- Locke77’s recognition that there are important Forensic – that is, moral – aspects to the topic of Personal Identity is as true today as in his own day, even though we might not share his primary concern in justifying the importance of identifying the resurrected78 with the pre-mortem individuals.
- Animalism79 may say that psychology has nothing to do with the metaphysics of our identity – in that we continue on as the same animal – if we do – irrespective of our psychological states and history. While this may be true, most of what matters80 to us in our Survival81 is psychological, and ethical, and our concerns about praise and blame, and especially punishment, remain.
- Also, forensic matters are central to the Concept82 of Person83, even if we are84 not – most fundamentally – persons, and Person is an honorific rather than a Substance85 term.
- Forensic matters are central to discussions as to whether – and if so why – all human beings86 are persons for the entirety of their lives.
- Finally, Animalism is especially well-motivated in considering – for forensic reasons – whether certain Non-Human Animals87 are suitable for admission to the class of Person, maybe of reduced degree88.
- Psychology & The Psychological View
- Introduction
- In the arguments between those supporting psychological continuity89 and connectedness90, and those preferring bodily continuity91, the question what we are92 often seems to have been forgotten. Maybe it has often been assumed that Person93 is a substance94-concept?
- This is still assumed by those who think that Persons – whether as Souls95 or reified First-Person Perspectives96 – are separable from the infrastructure that – in normal circumstances – “grounds” them.
- But, for most people these days it is – or ought to be – obvious that the default position is that “we” are human animals, and that the consequences that stem from this have to be lived with.
- But it is difficult not to be – and maybe correct to be – dissatisfied with this. We may end up with a “Hybrid97” account: we are animals, but even so, we “go where our psychology goes”. In particular, the brain transplant98 intuition is difficult to escape from.
- If this is so, the answers to our questions will rest on just where our “psychology” does – or can (in the widest sense) – “go”.
- Transhumanists99 imagine all sorts of scenarios whereby “we” are uploaded100 to a computer. Even were this practical it assumes that “we” are our mental contents rather than the things that enjoy these contents. This strikes me as continuing a mistaken route in the history of philosophy taken by supporters of the psychological view101, and continued by Parfit102 and his supporters.
- The Psychological View103
- The Psychological View – hereafter the PV – is the view, originating with Locke104, that the matter of primary importance in matters of personal identity is psychological continuity105 (or maybe of psychological connectedness106). Indeed, this view – which was dominant until fairly recently (and maybe still is, given the Bourget & Chalmers survey) – is stronger, in saying that psychological continuity and connectedness are constitutive of Personal Identity.
- No-one denies that our psychology107 is important to us108, but making it constitutive of our identity has led to much confusion and paradox.
- I think, however, that Elselijn Kingma is incorrect in diagnosing the popularity of the PV as due to philosophers being intellectuals.
- In particular it encourages the idea that the same human being109 may not be the same person110 throughout its life111, or that the same person may “hop” from one human being to another as has been considered in many TEs112.
- I wish to deny both these possibilities.
- Psychology113
- If we adopt the Psychological View114 of Personal Identity – which I don’t – then it is psychological factors that are important in determining our persistence criteria115.
- However, while these factors do matter116 to the survivor117, they don’t matter in the binary sense of “have I survived or not” unless we take the Psychological View118 and make such factors constitutive of personal identity. As an animalist119, I do not.
- Supporters of the PV120 - or even the CV121 - tend to stress the discontinuity between the psychologies of human and non-human animals122. Animalists123 tend to focus on similarities, or continuities, as an evolutionary argument for animalism124.
- Because Psychology is so important to us, it is important to consider just what is important in it, and how it is grounded in our brains125 and bodies126. The idea of the Embodied Mind127 is very important when we consider phantastical ideas such as Uploading128.
- We must consider not just memory129 but other psychological capacities, including character.
- Psychological Criterion130
- The Psychological Criterion is the use of psychological facts as a criterion of personal identity, as definitive of whether we persist or not. So (on this view) if we want to know whether a person survives or not, it’s matters of psychological continuity or connectedness that we must investigate.
- In general, doubts arise about whether an individual has persisted if there are too radical changes in its properties in
- a short space of time (failure of continuity) or
- over longer stretches of time (failure of connectedness).
- These factors can be in tension131, as had been noted since Reid’s “Brave Officer” objection to Locke’s “memory criterion”, and Lewis’s Methuselah132 case. Identity is an equivalence relation, so transitivity is expected. Yet it is not necessarily respected in the case of memory – because continuous so-called memory-identity fails to lead to connectedness over long periods of time.
- Another factor I have noted is that there’s a distinction between the evidential force of forward and backward psychological continuity, covered below.
- Psychological Continuity133
- Like any persisting thing, the persistence134 of a psychology requires continuity to an appropriate degree of the entity supposedly persisting: hence ‘psychological continuity’.
- I’m not quite sure what ‘a psychology’ is supposed to be, but it is supposedly constitutive of personal identity for those accepting the Psychological View135
- Popularly, we say that an individual is ‘not the same person’ as they were before if their character or aims differ too much from that former state. Hence, such characteristics would seem to be constitutive of a psychology.
- As noted, it is usual for someone’s character to develop gradually over time, often in a positive sense, though there may be Dorian Grey like declensions. However, there can also be sudden changes, as when someone has a religious or political conversion experience, though – even there – there is continuity of more general psychological factors.
- We are comfortable with gradual changes – new memories are added and lost gradually, and tastes stay fairly constant; knowledge is acquired gradually. But, over time, these gradual changes accumulate to the degree that one might not recognise the child in the adult, say. But usually, we allow that such gradual changes are identity-preserving, even though psychological connectedness136 is to some degree lost.
- All this is associated with one’s First Person Perspective137, one’s window on the world from which standpoint one anticipates the future, enjoys the present, and remembers the past.
- Forward Psychological Continuity138
- I think there’s a conceptual difference between:-
- Forward psychological continuity, and
- Backward psychological continuity.
- Imagine the case where139, I’m put into a duplicating machine140, but something goes wrong and my body is destroyed by the duplication141 process, though my duplicate wakes up perfectly happily. Then, it seems to me, I142 would never wake up, and would have no experience beyond entry to the duplicating machine. I would have no forward psychological continuity.
- However, my duplicate143 does have backward psychological continuity. Any duplicate of me, looking backward, would consider himself to be “me”, having my memories144, abilities, plans and so forth, and a body looking just like mine. But, would I145 ever wake up as the duplicate? My intuition on the endurantist account, as I have said, is that I would not, though I suspect that on the perdurantist146 account, this might be seen as a case of intended fission147 in which I was intended to wake up twice, provided we consider that the right sort of causality148 is in place.
- The above considerations raise issues similar to those in closest continuer149 accounts of personal identity, and the Only 'X' and 'Y' Principle150. How can what happens to someone else affect whether (so to speak) I am me? How could the “right sort of causality” have anything to do with how I experience things?
- Fission is, in any case, hard to imagine happening to oneself. Just what does it mean to “wake up twice”? I dare say one could get one’s head(s) around it. The two selves would then be distinct individuals, with distinct consciousnesses, but with a shared past. On the perdurantist account, we were always distinct, but co-located with everything in common.
- Let’s consider forward psychological continuity in everyday life. What ensures forward continuity of consciousness151 in the normal case of sleep and temporary unconsciousness? I cannot know “from the inside” that when I awake I’m the same human being152 as the one that went to sleep in my bed. The reason I believe this is for external reasons: duplication153 is not physically possible (or at least practical), and in any case I have no reason to believe it happened to me last night. Other people assure me that there was nothing out of the ordinary going on.
- Andy Clark154, raises this question about what ensures psychological continuity – more or less than in the case of Teletransportation – in the case of dreamless sleep, or (hypothetically) being frozen and then thawed out. We might ask what it is in the normal waking case. Maybe the whole thing is related to the arrow of time155 or in the distinctions between forward-looking psychological properties – desires and intentions yet to be satisfied or acted upon – and memories of what has already taken place.
- This is the sort of question that the Logical Positivists would denounce as meaningless, as no empirical evidence can decide it.
- Memory156
- Obviously, if I were to become tempted by the Psychological View157 of personal identity, I would have to give an account of memory, and it would appear here.
- Though quasi-memory158 is the more relevant concept for those espousing the Psychological Criterion159, it depends on the concept of memory itself.
- While neither version of memory is constitutive of personal identity, memories represent much of what matters160 to us in Survival161.
- In this regard, I might note in passing that some of the supposed memories that matter most to us may not be true accounts of what actually happened – assuming there is even a single such true account that includes any mattering in the first place.
- It is supposed memories that convince the experiencer thereof that he has survived some escapade in a TE162 when in fact he has not.
- Methuselah163
- David Lewis’s Methuselah thought experiment164 seems to be a reductio ad absurdum of the psychological165 connectedness166 approach to personal identity.
- I’m unimpressed167 by Lewis168’s solution. Can there really be an uncountable infinity of persons169 residing in a single body170? But why not? Lewis thrives on pressing credibility.
- The “no prudential concern for the future” argument also seems to be another reductio of the connectedness approach. If I’m not the same person as the future occupant of my body, why make provisions for him. Yet, he’ll share my first-person perspective171 and I’ll be psychologically continuous172 with him.
- Of course, Lewis’s model (of a 137-year cut-off for psychological connectedness) is admittedly too crude. Parfit173 sees temporally extended persons as persons of reduced degree174, according to the degree of connectedness. However, this seems to destroy the natural growth and maturation of the person.
- I’m still the same person as was my immature self, even though most of my hopes and desires have changed. If I’m in control of my life, I own these changes, brought them about, and often think them for the good.
- What about where I don’t own them, but regret my corruption (moral and physical)? It’s still my corruption that I regret. I’m the same human being175.
- It depends what concept176 we want to use the term “person” for. We always have to distinguish personality177 from persons.
- Finally, consider Saul Kripke on individuation by origin178. Is this a possible objection to overlapping persons? If a person’s origin is what individuates179 it, how is it possible for persons to have vague180,181 origins as in an un-simplified Methusalah case? There are two issues here that need spelling out.
- Quasi-Memory182
- One problem with Locke’s memory theory of Personal Identity183 is that it is prima facie circular. A memory can properly only be had by the person who had the experience, so cannot be used to analyse “Person184”.
- However, “Quasi-” prefixes do not presuppose ownership.
- Snowdon puts it this way185:-
- There is a causal linkage L linking a person’s memory to that person’s history.
- There is – we may suppose – a neural trace laid down at the time, and re-activated during an act of remembering.
- This trace might be transferred – again we may suppose – to some other subject by micro-surgery.
- This new subject thereby Q-remembers an event that he did not experience.
- So, since Q-remembering does not presuppose the identity of the person doing the Q-remembering with the person involved in the event Q-remembered, Q-predicates can without circularity be used to analyse personal identity in terms of psychological continuity and connectedness.
- Or so it is said.
- Sleep186
- In the context of Parfit’s187 Teletransportation188 TE189, the thought190 is that the “pulling yourself together” that the individual does on awaking is very closely analogous to what happens in the “reception pod” in teletransportation. If this is right, then either the awakening sleeper is not identical to the one who went to sleep, or the teletransportee is indeed identical to the individual who set off, and teletransportation is indeed a form of travel.
- I don’t believe any of this. However, it needs to be considered carefully as it’s central to the Psychological View191, which says – roughly speaking – that we are192 most fundamentally mental substances, and there has – since Descartes – been an issue about whether the thinking thing has to be continually thinking, and the dreamless sleep was the classic case of when it appeared not to be.
- Another context in which the word “sleep” is used is in the New Testament (Pauline) account of (believers’) death193 – and the state of the dead between death and resurrection194, which is described as “sleep”. This is also referenced in Hamlet’s soliloquy (“perchance to dream195”).
- There’s a mildly heretical Christian view – called “soul sleep” by detractors (though those that hold the view tend not to believe in immaterial souls) – that the individual experiences nothing between death and resurrection196.
- Of course, we refer to the euthanasia of animals as “putting to sleep”, but this isn’t understood to mean anything significant about the post-mortem state of the animal197.
- Other Philosophers of Note
- Introduction
- Apart from Locke, discussed above, almost every major philosopher – both historical and contemporary – has had something to say about personal identity, whether or not it has been a major area of concern. How could it be otherwise?
- I have chosen half a dozen that have featured in my researches. Some of these – together with other philosophers – will appear again in later Chapters.
- Descartes198
- Descartes is important as the initiator within modern philosophy of the psychological view199 that we are200 thinking things (res cogitans).
- He also initiated the use of Thought Experiments201 in the topic of personal identity. In my view he introduced (or confirmed) the muddle within philosophy that what is (clearly and distrinctly) conceivable is possible202. This will be considered in Chapter 10203.
- He will be considered further in the Chapter 2204, under the head of Cartesian Egos205.
- Kant206
- Text to be supplied.
- Leibniz207
- I’m uncertain whether I will have anything to say on Leibniz apart from Leibniz’s Law(s), which are covered under the Logic of Identity208.
- However, Leibniz’s critique of Locke’s account of personal identity, in "Leibniz (Gottfried) - What Identity Or Diversity Is", may be worth following up.
- As may his wider criticism of Locke in "Leibniz (Gottfried), Remnant (Peter), Bennett (Jonathan) - New Essays on Human Understanding", though I suspect life’s too short.
- Lewis209
- David Lewis’s views on personal identity are characterised by his espousal of perdurantism210.
- As is discussed under that Note, perdurantist metaphysics avoids the reduplication211 problems for identity-preservation following fission212. See also my Note on Counting Persons213.
- Lewis is also important for espousing realism with respect to possible worlds. The modal214 counterpart relation is used as an analogy in exdurantism215. I will not discuss any of this here.
- Lynne Rudder Baker charges Lewis with trying to reduce the First Person Perspective216.
- Lewis discusses the Thought Experiment217 of Methuselah218, important for the Psychological View219 of personal identity. Lewis espouses the PV220 and thinks that several Persons221 can exist successively in a single human animal222.
- Parfit223
- Parfit is famous for the dictum “identity is not what matters in survival”.
- I have a note – What Matters224 on this, which I cover along with other general metaphysical matters in Chapter 4225.
- My view remains that there must be some confusion in this dictum, in that survival226 is the same as persistence227, and without identity there is no persistence, so identity is a necessary condition for survival and must, therefore, “matter”.
- There may well be situations wherein other things matter – either to others or to myself – more than my survival, but this is not the same thing.
- Also, Parfit espouses a psychological view228 of personal identity, and has many interesting things to say on whether – given the psychological difference between myself now and my future self – I should make provision for someone to whom I am only weakly psychologically connected229, and whether others should honour advance directives made by my former self230.
- My view on that remains that I’m stuck with my FPP231, which persists (though it may degrade) through all the changes in my psychology, and that prudence demands that I take this into account. It matters.
- In addition, Parfit has invented or refined a number of interesting TEs232 to do with Fission233, Fusion234 or Teletransportation235, which will receive attention in their due place in Chapter 10236.
- Wittgenstein237
- Text to be supplied.
- Further text to be supplied238 in due course.
Concluding Remarks
- To make any progress on this topic, we need to come to a conclusion as to what sort of thing we are. We discuss this in the next Chapter239.
Links to Books / Papers to be Addressed240
- This section attempts to derive the readings lists automatically from those of the underlying Notes, but removing duplicated references. The list is divided into:-
- In this Chapter I will consider the following papers or book chapters (together with some others referenced by these). There are doubtless many more that are relevant and which will be addressed in the course of the thesis, but these are probably sufficient to get us going.
- The purpose of this Chapter is to introduce and motivate the Thesis. As such, I need to situate it in the history of the topic. This is done in a number of introductory books, General Surveys, or collections of Papers that are standard fodder in courses on Personal Identity.
- Consequently, I will review the various Surveys of Personal Identity that feature in the standard reading lists, both to demonstrate that I’ve read them, and to ensure I’ve missed nothing major.
- If a Paper in a Collection or Chapter in an Introduction is specific to a later Chapter in this Thesis, its major consideration may be reserved until a later Chapter, even if the Book itself is not. These will be noted in due course.
- As the topic of Personal Identity stems primarily from Locke’s account, I need a brief statement of what this is. Most of the relevant material will appear in due course in the anthologies, but a few items not anthologised are listed below.
- I have largely ignored the many works by Lynne Rudder Baker and Eric Olson in this Chapter, as they feature heavily later in the Thesis.
- Other works were considered and either cut or reserved for later. The easiest way to see all the works considered is via the reading list at the end of this Note.
Works on this topic that I’ve actually read243, include the following:-
- General Surveys244
- Introductory or General:
- "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?", 2014, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Higher-order truths about chmess", 2006, Write-Up Note245, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity", 1998, 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness", 1998, Book
- "Grice (H. Paul) - Personal Identity", 1941, Internal PDF Link
- "Hirsch (Eli) - The Concept of Identity", 1982, Book
- "Lerner (Berel Dov) - Review of 'Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction' by David Shoemaker", 2009
- "Noonan (Harold) - Personal Identity", 2003, Book, Footnote246
- "Perry (John) - A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality", 1978, Book
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction", 2009, Book, Footnote247
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion", 2000, Book
- "Unger (Peter) - Identity, Consciousness and Value", 1992, Book, Footnote248
- "Unger (Peter) - Precis of 'Identity, Consciousness and Value'", 1992, Internal PDF Link
- Lectures:
- "Crane (Tim) - Substance (4-Lecture BA Course)", 2005, Annotations
- "Hossack (Keith) - Five Lectures on the Logic and Metaphysics of Identity", 2001?, Annotations, Footnote249
- "Papineau (David) - Research Seminar on Personal Identity", Undated, Footnote250
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Personal Identity (Lectures 1 - 4)", 2005?, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote251
- Standard Collections:
- "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online", 2011/2017, Write-Up Note252, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Perry (John), Ed. - Personal Identity", 1975, Book
- Locke
- Locke253
- General:
- "Armstrong (David) - Identity Through Time", 1980, Annotations
- "Arnold (Keith) - The Subject of Radical Change", 1978, Internal PDF Link
- "Atherton (Margaret) - Locke and the Issue Over Innateness", 1983, Write-Up Note254
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Artificial and Other Problematical Objects", 1991, No Abstract
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Contemporary Reactions to Locke's Theory", 1991, No Abstract
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Forms of Material Unity", 1991, No Abstract
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Identity: Introduction", 1991, Annotations
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke (Ontology) - Introduction & Conclusion", 1991, No Abstract
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on Living Things", 1991, No Abstract
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", 1991, No Abstract
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy", 1991, Annotations
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Personal Identity Before the Essay", 1991, No Abstract
- "Baillie (James) - What Am I?", 1993, Write-Up Note255, Footnote256
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism (SEP)", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism Unburdened", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan), Ed. - The Lives of Human Animals", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bourgeois (Warren) - Modern Philosophers' Views on Persons: More Moderns", 2003
- "Bourgeois (Warren) - Modern Philosophers' Views on Persons: The Renaissance and the Early Moderns", 2003
- "Butler (Joseph) - Of Personal Identity", 1975, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dainton (Barry) - From Phenomenal Selves to Hyper-Selves", 2015, External Link
- "Duncan (Matt) - I Think, Therefore I Persist", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Fine (Kit) - A Counter-Example To Locke's Thesis", 2000, Write-Up Note257, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Gale (Richard) - On Some Pernicious Thought-Experiments", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Persons", 1998, 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity", 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Jolley (Nicholas) - Personal Identity", 1999, Annotations
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Locke: Identity", 1995, Write-Up Note258, Annotations
- "Mackie (David) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: No Contest", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John) - Personal Identity and What Matters In Survival: An Historical Overview", 2003
- "Maurer (Nicholas) - Too Many Persons, or None At All?", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: A Current Controversy", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie", 2001, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Locke", 2003, Annotations
- "Noonan (Harold) - Personal Identity", 2003, Book
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Perry (John) - The Problem of Personal Identity", 1975
- "Perry (John), Ed. - Personal Identity", 1975, Book
- "Quinton (Anthony) - The Soul", 1975, Internal PDF Link
- "Reid (Thomas) - Of Mr. Locke's Account of Our Personal Identity", 1975, No Abstract
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Moral Responsibility", 2009
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Simons (Peter) - Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe", 1992, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Strathern (Paul) - Locke in 90 Minutes", 1996, Book
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Psychological continuity", 2000
- "Wiggins (David) - Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind", 1976, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Annotations
- "Wiggins (David) - The Concern to Survive", 1987, Annotations
- "Wiggins (David) - The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value", 1987, Annotations
- "Williams (Christopher) - Being, Identity and Truth: Preface", 1992
- "Wilson (Jack) - Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities", 1999, Annotations
- "Winkler (Kenneth) - Locke on Personal Identity", 1991, Annotations, No Abstract
- "Woolhouse (Roger) - Locke's Theory of Knowledge", 1994, Write-Up Note259
- Locke:
- "Locke (John) - Of Identity and Diversity", 1690, Write-Up Note260, Internal PDF Link
- Forensic Property261
- Aeon:
- "Benatar (David) - Kids? Just say no", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Gopnik (Alison) - Video - Alison Gopnik: Cognition, care and spirituality", 2021, External Link
- "Lichtenberg (Judith) - Abolish life sentences", 2022, External Link
- "Tasioulas (John) - Are human rights anything more than legal conventions?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Vinocour (Susan) - Criminally insane", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Wilkinson (Dominic) & Doolabh (Keyur) - Which lives matter most?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Cavalieri (Paola) & Singer (Peter), Eds. - The Great Ape Project - Equality Beyond Humanity", 1993, Book
- "Conee (Earl) - Reply to Timothy Chappell", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Frankfurt (Harry) - Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person", 1991, Write-Up Note262, Internal PDF Link
- "Lerner (Berel Dov) - Review of 'Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction' by David Shoemaker", 2009
- "Marshall (Richard) & Broome (John) - John Broome: Weighing goods and people", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Marshall (Richard) & Woollard (Fiona) - Fiona Woollard: On Doing and Allowing Harm", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Locke", 2003, Annotations
- "Rachels (James) - Created From Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism", 1991, Book
- "Rachels (James) - Morality without the Idea that Humans are Special", 1991, No Abstract
- "Scheffler (Samuel) - The Independence and Distinctness of the Personal Point of View", 1994, Footnote263
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction", 2009, Book, Footnote264
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Persons and Personal Identity", 1996
- "Von Wachter (Daniel) - Free Agents as Cause", 2003, Annotations
- "Williams (Bernard) - Consistency and Realism", 1999, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - Ethical Consistency", 1999, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - Persons, Character and Morality", 1976
- The Psychological View
- Psychological View265
- Aeon:
- "Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) - Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality", 2019, External Link
- General:
- "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?", 2014, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue", 2014
- "Duncan (Matt) - I Think, Therefore I Persist", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Ehring (Douglas) - Personal Identity and Time Travel", 1987, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Note: Tangentially, in footnote(s).
- "Johnston (Mark) - Human Beings", 1987, Write-Up Note266, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Kingma (Elselijn) - Were You Part of Your Mother?", 2019, Annotations, Note: Tangentially, in footnote(s).
- "Liao (S. Matthew) - The Organism View Defended", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach", 1999
- Psychology267
- Aeon:
- "Addyman (Caspar) - Why playing peekaboo with babies is a very serious matter", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Armstrong (John) - La bella vita", 2014, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Arnold (Carrie) - Watchers of the earth", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Askowitz (Andrea) - So I exaggerate a little – am I wrong to jazz up my stories?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Asma (Stephen) - We could all do with learning how to improvise a little better", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Barash (David P.) - Animal magnetism", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bergreen (Laurence) - The real Casanova", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bourke (Joanna) - Our anaesthetic times", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Burton (Robert A.) - Our world outsmarts us", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Case (Holly) - The new authoritarians", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Cave (Stephen) - Democracies fail when they ask too little of their citizens", 2015, Annotations, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Chabal (Emile) - Les anglo-saxons", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Chatfield (Tom) - The attention economy", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Claxton (Guy) - Get your kicks", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Clay (Alexa) - Utopia Inc", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Cope (Suzanne) - Cognitive dissonance helps old dogs with their new tricks", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Crabb (Jon) - Monster mash", 2017, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Currid-Halkett (Elizabeth) - Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Davis (Heath Fogg) - Let’s delete sex-identity from birth certificates", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Delistraty (Cody) - When it’s good to be bad", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Deroy (Ophelia) - Why you need to touch your keys to believe they’re in your bag", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dixon (Thomas) - The waterworks", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dreger (Alice) - You might be in a medical experiment and not even know it", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Fehlhaber (Kate) - What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Flora (Carlin) - Praise them!", 2014, Annotations, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Francis (Matthew) - Cognitive celebrity", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Furedi (Frank) - The ages of distraction", 2016, Annotations, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Neil) - Dishonesty gets easier on the brain the more you do it", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Gershon (Livia) - The future is emotional", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Glausiusz (Josie) - Would the world be more peaceful if there were more women leaders?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Guerrero (Alexander) - The lottocracy", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hanink (Johanna) - Even the ancient Greeks thought their best days were history", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Henderson (Gretchen E.) - The history of ugliness shows that there is no such thing", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Heneghan (Liam) - We have a new word for that feeling when travel makes everything new", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Humphrey (Nicholas) - Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Isaacs (Anton) - Chemobrain is real. Here’s what to expect after cancer treatment", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Jaekl (Philip) - Sleepwalking is the result of a survival mechanism gone awry", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kreplin (Ute) - Meditation under the microscope", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Labaree (David) - An unlikely triumph", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lawton (Rebecca) - The healing power of nature", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lee (Jihyun) - Why the most successful students have no passion for school", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lewis (Marc) & Shelly (Shaun) - We need ecstasy and cocaine in place of Prozac and Xanax", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lilienfeld (Scott O.) - Microaggressions?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "McCumber (John) - America’s hidden philosophy", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Melechi (Antonio) - What lurks beneath", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Miller (Kenneth) - Night school", 2015, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Mireault (Gina) - Five-month-old babies know what’s funny", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Montero (Barbara Gail) - Against flow", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Moran (Joe) - The crystalline wall", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Newman (Sandra) - Infanticide", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Onion (Rebecca) - Lock up your wives!", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Pennycook (Gordon) - Why bullshit is no laughing matter", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Perry (Sarah) - A sublime contagion", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Phillips (Jonathan) - ‘But you can’t do that!’ Why immoral actions seem impossible", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Pigliucci (Massimo) - Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Pigliucci (Massimo) - To be happier, focus on what’s within your control", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Pitock (Todd) - Here’s to naps and snoozes", 2019, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Prinz (Jesse) - How wonder works", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Ramin (Cathryn Jakobson) - Where pain lives", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Reeve (C.D.C.) - The anger of Achilles", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Renstrom (Joelle) - And their eyes glazed over", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Renstrom (Joelle) - What happened when I made my students turn off their phones", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Romeo (Nick) - Platonically irrational", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Saunders (David) - The history of brainwashing is a red flag for techno-therapy", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Saxton (Tamsin) - Keeping it in the family: why we pick the partners we do", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Schwitzgebel (Eric) - A theory of jerks", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Staudenmaier (Peter) - The Nazis as occult masters? It’s a good story but not history", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Stein (Alexandra) - How totalism works", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Tampio (Nicholas) - Teaching ‘grit’ is bad for children, and bad for democracy", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Tampio (Nicholas) - Treat people as citizens", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Tchernichovski (Ofer) - What songbirds could teach us about constructive tweeting", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Thomas (Courtney Erin) - The early moderns had their work cut out curating their honour", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Todorov (Alexander) - First impressions count", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Truitt (Elly R.) - Preternatural machines", 2015, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Turchin (Peter) - Return of the oppressed", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Twigger (Robert) - Master of many trades", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Vannini (Walter) - Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Walton (Stuart) - Theory from the ruins", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Weinberger (Sharon) - Web of war", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiles (Will) - Creepypasta", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Florence) - Feel-good fractals - from ocean waves to Jackson Pollock’s art", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Willingham (Emily) - The non-binary brain", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Yurkiewicz (Ilana) - Medical disrespect", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Zacks (Jeffrey M.) - Getting smarter", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Zarkadakis (George) - The economy is more a messy, fractal living thing than a machine", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Non-Aeon:
- "Attwood (Tony) - Video: Could It Be Aspergers?", 2016, External Link
- "Beck (Julie) - Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Boden (Margaret) - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology: Interdisciplinary Essays", 1989, Book
- "Botterill (George) & Carruthers (Peter) - The Philosophy of Psychology", 1999, Book
- "Carruthers (Peter) & Chamberlain (Andrew), Eds. - Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition", 2000, Book
- "Chambers (Oswald) - Biblical Psychology", 1972, Book
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
- "Dweck (Carol S.) - The Secret to Raising Smart Kids", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Fodor (Jerry) - The Mind Doesn't Work That Way - The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology", 2001, Book
- "Fodor (Jerry) - The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology", 1996, Book
- "Glover (Jonathan) - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity: Introduction", 1988
- "Glover (Jonathan) - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity: Preface", 1988
- "Goldman (Alvin) - Consciousness, Folk Psychology and Cognitive Science", 1993
- "MacDonald (Cynthia) & MacDonald (Graham) - The Philosophy of Psychology: Debates in Psychological Explanation - Preface", 1995
- "Murphy (Dominic) & Stich (Stephen) - Darwin in the Madhouse: Evolutionary Psychology and the Classification of Mental Disorders", 2000, No Abstract
- "Olson (Eric) - Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?", 1994, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Parkin (Alan) - Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology", 1996 / 2003, Book
- "Sterelny (Kim) & Griffiths (Paul) - From Sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychology", 1999, Write-Up Note268
- "Stevenson (Leslie) - Behavioral Psychology: Skinner on Conditioning", 2004, No Abstract
- "Stevenson (Leslie) - Evolutionary Psychology: Lorentz on Aggression", 2004, No Abstract
- "Stillman (Jessica) - Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books Than You'll Ever Have Time to Read", 2017, External Link
- "Theil (Stefan) - Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong - and How to Fix It", 2015, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Psychological Criterion269
- General:
- "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity: In Conclusion", 1993
- "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity: Preface", 1993
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Ehring (Douglas) - Personal Identity and Time Travel", 1987, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Criteria of Personal Identity", 1998
- "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
- "Parfit (Derek) - How We Are Not What We Believe", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - Nagel's Brain", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - What We Believe Ourselves To Be", 1986, Write-Up Note270
- "Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg) - The Identities of Persons: Introduction", 1976
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics", 2005-12, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Moral Responsibility", 2009
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- "Snowdon (Paul) - The Self and Personal Identity", 2009, Write-Up Note271
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Psychological continuity", 2000
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
- Psychological Continuity272
- General:
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy", 1991, Annotations
- "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity: Preface", 1993
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Personal Identity Over Time", 2000, Write-Up Note273, Internal PDF Link
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - What Am I?", 1999, Write-Up Note274, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote275
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism, Dicephalus, and Borderline Cases", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Campbell (Scott) - Can You Survive a Brain-Zap", 2004, Annotations
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
- "DeGrazia (David) - Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply", 2002, Write-Up Note276, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote277
- "Gale (Richard) - On Some Pernicious Thought-Experiments", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Mackie (David) - Going Topless", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Mackie (David) - Personal Identity and Dead People", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - An Initial Survey", 2003, Annotations
- "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem", 2015, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note278, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?", 1994, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Was I Ever a Fetus?", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? The Question", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - How We Are Not What We Believe", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - Nagel's Brain", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - What We Believe Ourselves To Be", 1986, Write-Up Note279
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Psychological continuity", 2000
- "Unger (Peter) - Conscious Experiences and Subjects of Consciousness: Six Metaphysical Doctrines", 1992
- "Unger (Peter) - The Psychological Approach To Our Survival", 1992
- "Unger (Peter) - The Survival of the Sentient", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity", 1994, Internal PDF Link
- Forward Psychological Continuity280
- Aeon:
- "Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) - Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality", 2019, External Link
- General:
- "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?", 2014, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue", 2014
- "Dennett (Daniel) - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul: Introduction", 1981, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Ehring (Douglas) - Personal Identity and Time Travel", 1987, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "Noonan (Harold) - Identity, Constitution and Microphysical Supervenience", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note281, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- "Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) - Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?", 2015, External Link
- Memory
- Memory282
- Aeon:
- "Aamodt (Caitlin) - On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Aeon - Video - My favorite picture of you", 2014, External Link
- "Haft (Helen) - Telling memories", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Henderson (Caspar) - Webs of perception", 2012, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kelly (Lynne) - This ancient mnemonic technique builds a palace of memory", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Keogh (Rebecca) - The human brain’s bandwidth for visual images is severely limited", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lemonick (Michael D.) - Living in the now", 2017, External Link
- "Ohlson (Kristin) - The great forgetting", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Tesfaye (Rackeb) - What amnesiacs tell us about memory: Q&A with Brenda Milner", 2016, External Link
- "Whitcroft (Katherine) - Scents and sensibility", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Bear (Mark), Connors (Barry) & Paradiso (Michael) - Memory Systems", 2002, No Abstract
- "Bear (Mark), Connors (Barry) & Paradiso (Michael) - Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory", 2002, No Abstract
- "Dancy (Jonathan) - Memory", 1975, Write-Up Note283
- "Edwards (Paul) - Spontaneous Memories of Earlier Lives", 2002, No Abstract
- "Luria (A.R.) - The Mind of a Mnemonist", 1969, Book
- "Perry (John) - Personal Identity, Memory, and the Problem of Circularity", 2002
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Personal Identity and Memory", 1975, Internal PDF Link
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Two Problems About Personal Identity: Memory and Commissurotomy", 1990, Annotations, No Abstract
- Methuselah284
- General:
- "Lewis (David) - Survival and Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Identity and Determinacy", 2003, Annotations
- "Perry (John) - The Importance of Being Identical", 2002
- Quasi-Memory285
- General:
- "Coliva (Annalisa) - Review of Gasser & Stefan, Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Liao (S. Matthew) - The Organism View Defended", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Quasi-Memory", 2003, Annotations
- "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note286, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Parfit (Derek) - How We Are Not What We Believe", 1986
- "Roache (Rebecca) - A Defence of Quasi-Memory", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
- "Snowdon (Paul) - The Self and Personal Identity", 2009, Write-Up Note287
- Sleep288
- Aeon:
- "Aeon - Video - How do you know you're not dreaming?", 2022, External Link
- "Boyle (Rebecca) - The end of night", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) - Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality", 2019, External Link
- "Gamble (Jessa) - Life in Circadia", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Gamble (Jessa) - The end of sleep?", 2013, External Link
- "Naiman (Rubin) - Falling for sleep", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Ribeiro (Sidarta) - Ancestral dreams", 2022, External Link
- "Zadra (Antonio) - What dream characters reveal about the astonishing dreaming brain", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Baars (Bernard) - Introduction: Treating Consciousness as a Variable: The Fading Taboo", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Burkeman (Oliver) - The I in Mind: Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?", 2015, External Link
- "Buzzi (Giorgio) - Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences", 2002
- "Cooper (John) - Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Preface to the Second Printing", 1989
- "DeGrazia (David) - Human Identity and Bioethics: Introduction", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Where Am I?", 1997, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dougary (Ginny) - A Very English Farewell", 2011, Annotations
- "Hecker (Bruce) - How do Whales and Dolphins Sleep Without Drowning?", 1998, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - The nature of death (continued); Believing you will die", 2007, External Link
- "Kazez (Jean) - The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children", 2017
- "Koch (Christof) - When Does Consciousness Arise in Human Babies?", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Review of Peter Unger's - 'All the Power in the World'", 2008, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Medina (John) - The Clock of Ages - Why we Age; How we Age; Winding Back the Clock", 1996
- "Moody (Todd C.) - Conversations with Zombies", 1994, External Link
- "Morris (John) - Christian Living", 2012
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) - Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?", 2015, External Link
- "The Week, Cooke (Rachel) - How Sleep Could Save Your Life", 2017, Internal PDF Link
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Other arguments for dualism", 2000
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
- "Velleman (David) - Dying", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link
Other Philosophers of Note
- Descartes289
- Aeon:
- "Birhane (Abeba) - Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Descartes:
- "Descartes (Rene) - Descartes Defends an Ontological Argument", Undated
- General:
- "Burnyeat (Myles) - Idealism and Greek Philosophy: What Descartes Saw and Berkeley Missed", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Damasio (Antonio) - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain", 2000, Book
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Descartes' arguments for dualism", 2000
- Kant290
- General:
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Review of Kuehn on Kant", 2001, Annotations, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Review of Umberto Eco: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition", 2000, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kant (Immanuel) - Section II: Transition From Popular Morality To Metaphysics of Morals", 1785, No Abstract
- "Kant (Immanuel) - The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God", 1781
- "Strathern (Paul) - Kant in 90 Minutes", 1996, Book
- Kant on Personal Identity:
- "Cassam (Quassim) - Kant and Reductionism", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Longuenesse (Beatrice) - Kant on the identity of persons", 2007, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Leibniz291
- General:
- "Botros (Sophie) - Caught in a Timeless Leibnizian Net", 2017
- "Crane (Tim) - Substance (4-Lecture BA Course)", 2005, Annotations
- "Moreland (J.P.) - The Problem(s) of Universals", 2001
- "Noonan (Harold) - Leibniz, Butler and Reid", 2003, Annotations
- "Woolhouse (Roger) - Leibniz and Substance", 1993, Write-Up Note292
- Leibniz:
- "Leibniz (Gottfried), Woolhouse (Roger), Francks (Richard) - Leibniz - Philosophical Texts", 1998, Book
- Lewis293
- Lewis:
- "Lewis (David) - Attitudes De Dicto and De Se", 1979, Internal PDF Link
- "Lewis (David) - Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies", 1971, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lewis (David) - Philosophical Papers Volume I", 1983, Book
- "Lewis (David) - Survival and Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link, Footnote294
- "Lewis (David) - The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", 1986
- Parfit295
- Aeon:
- "Platts-Mills (Ben) - On Matthew’s mind", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Appleyard (Bryan) - Derek Parfit’s quest for perfection", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Baggini (Julian) - When Derek Parfit published, it mattered", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Baillie (James) - Identity, Survival, and Sortal Concepts", 1990, Internal PDF Link
- "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity: In Conclusion", 1993
- "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity: Preface", 1993
- "Baker (Deane-Peter) - Taylor and Parfit on Personal Identity: a Response to Lotter", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Review of Derek Parfit's 'On What Matters'", 2011, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?", 2014, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Carruthers (Peter) - After-Life for Materialists", 1986, Footnote296
- "Carruthers (Peter) - Introducing Persons: Theories and Arguments in the Philosophy of Mind", 1994, Book
- "Cassam (Quassim) - Parfit on Persons", 1992, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Colen (J.A.) - In Memoriam Derek Parfit (1942-2017)", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dancy (Jonathan) - Reading Parfit: Preface", 1997
- "Edmonds (David) - Obituary: Derek Parfit", 2017, External Link
- "Edmonds (David) - Reason and romance: The world’s most cerebral marriage", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Fenwick (Cody) - Derek Parfit, Renowned Philosopher of Ethics, Mind and Metaphysics, Dies at 74", 2017, External Link
- "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Parfit, 'Personal Identity'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Animalism and Reductionism", 1998, Annotations
- "Garrett (Brian) - Parfit and 'What Matters'", 1998
- "Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Reductionism", 1991, Write-Up Note297, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Grimes (William) - Derek Parfit, Philosopher Who Explored Identity and Moral Choice, Dies at 74", 1998, External Link
- "Hodgkin (Adam) - Derek Parfit, typesetting and marmalade", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Johansson (Jens) - What is Animalism?", 2007, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote298
- "Johnston (Mark) - Human Beings", 1987, Write-Up Note299, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I", 2007, External Link
- "Lewis (David) - Survival and Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link
- "Liao (S. Matthew) - The Organism View Defended", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "MacFarquhar (Larissa) - How to be Good", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Mackie (David) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: No Contest", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote300
- "Martin (Raymond) - Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to what Matters in Survival", 1998, Book
- "Matthews (Dylan) - The whole philosophy community is mourning Derek Parfit - Here's why he mattered", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "McDowell (John) - Reductionism and the First Person", 1997, Annotations
- "McMahan (Jeff) - Obituary of Derek Parfit", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Munthe (Christian) - Remembering Derek Parfit", 2018, External Link
- "Nagel (Thomas) - Mind and Body", 1989
- "Noonan (Harold) - An Initial Survey", 2003, Annotations
- "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie", 2001, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Parfit and What Matters in Survival", 2003, Annotations
- "Oderberg (David) - Johnston on Human Beings", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "O'Grady (Jane) - Derek Parfit obituary", 2017, External Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem", 2015, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - On Parfit's View That We Are Not Human Beings", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Perry (John) - The Importance of Being Identical", 2002
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics", 2005-12, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) - Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?", 2015, External Link, Footnote301
- "Stafforini (Pablo) - Derek Parfit: A Bibliography", 2017, No Abstract, External Link
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
- "Weinberg (Justin) - Derek Parfit (1942-2017) (updated)", 2017, External Link
- "Wikipedia - Derek Parfit", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - Personal Identity", 1984, External Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - Persons, Character and Morality", 1976
- Parfit:
- "Parfit (Derek) - How We Are Not What We Believe", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - Isaiah Berlin", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - Lewis, Perry, and What Matters", 1976
- "Parfit (Derek) - Nagel's Brain", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - Personal Identity", 1975, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - Personal Identity and Morality", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - Personal Identity and Rationality", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - Postscript", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - Reasons and Persons", 1987, Book, Footnote302
- "Parfit (Derek) - The Closest Continuer Schema", 1984
- "Parfit (Derek) - What Does Matter", 1986
- "Parfit (Derek) - What We Believe Ourselves To Be", 1986, Write-Up Note303
- "Parfit (Derek) - Who do you think you are?", 1992, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - Why Our Identity is Not What Matters", 1986
- Wittgenstein304
- Aeon:
- "Grant (Sandy) - How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Gale (Richard) - On Some Pernicious Thought-Experiments", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Wittgenstein on 'I'", 1998
- "Grayling (Anthony) - Wittgenstein - A Very Short Introduction", 1988, Book
- "Kripke (Saul) - Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: Preface", 1982
- "Papineau (David) - Introducing Consciousness", 2000, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Potter (Harry), Shears (Tara), Carlisle (Clare) & Broks (Paul) - Audio: How Can I Know Anything at All?", 2015, External Link
- "Quine (W.V.) - Identity: an Excerpt From Quiddities", 1987
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - The First-Person Perspective", 1994, Internal PDF Link
- "Smith (Barry C.) - Neuroscience and philosophy must work together", 2012, External Link
- "Williams (Christopher) - What Is Identity?: Introduction and Analytical Table of Contents", 1989
- "Winch (Peter) - Eine Einstellung Zur Seele", 1981, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Yourgrau (Palle) - Can the Dead Really Be Buried?", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Wittgenstein:
- "Wittgenstein (Ludwig) - Bodily Sensations", 1933 / 1965, Write-Up Note305
- "Wittgenstein (Ludwig) - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", 1981, Book
A further reading list might start with:-
- General Surveys306
- Introductory or General:
- "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity", 1993, Book, Read = 45%
- "Berglund (Stefan) - Human and Personal Identity", 1995, Book, Read = 1%, Footnote307
- "Bourgeois (Warren) - Persons: What Philosophers Say about You", 2003, Book, Read = 15%, Footnote308
- "Brennan (Andrew) - Review of Harold Noonan's 'Personal Identity'", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Callcut (Daniel), Ed. - Reading Bernard Williams", 2009, Book, Read = 1%
- "Care (Norman) & Grimm (Robert) - Perception and Personal Identity", 1969, Book, Read = 1%
- "Carter (William) - Review of Unger's 'Identity, Consciousness and Value'", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "DeGrazia (David) - Human Identity and Bioethics", 2005, Book, Read = 7%
- "Doepke (Frederick) - The Kinds of Things: A Theory of Personal Identity Based on Transcendental Argument", 1996, Book, Read = 3%
- "Doyle (Robert O.) - Great Problems of Physics and Philosophy: Solved?", 2016, Book, Read = 1%
- "Garrett (Brian) - Review of Noonan's 'Personal Identity'", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Hawley (Katherine) - How Things Persist", 2004, Book, Read = 5%
- "Heller (Mark) - The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter", 1990, Book, Read = 4%
- "Hershenov (David) - Personal Identity", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Jenkins (Mark P.) - Bernard Williams", 2006, Book, Read = 1%
- "Kronen (John D.) - Critical Notice of J. Gracia's Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Look (Brandon C.) - The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity", 2008, Book, Read = 4%
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms", 1989, Book
- "Lowe (E.J.) - More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms", 2015, Book, Read = 3%
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Review of Noonan's 'Personal Identity'", 1990, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
- "Lowe (E.J.) - The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity and Time", 2001, Book
- "MacBride (Fraser), Ed. - Identity and Modality", 2006, Book, Read = 5%
- "MacDonald (Graham) - Perception & Identity - Essays Presented to A J Ayer with His Replies", 1979, Book, Read = 1%
- "Mackie (Penelope) - Material Objects and Metaphysics", 2008, Internal PDF Link
- "Margolis (Joseph) - Persons and Minds: Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism", 1978, Book
- "Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers", 2014, Book, Read = 37%
- "Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons", 2001, Book, Read = 7%
- "Munitz (Milton) - Identity and Individuation: Introduction", 1971, No Abstract
- "O'Hear (Anthony) - Minds and Persons", 2003, Book
- "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity (Stanford, 2015)", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 15%
- "Olson (Eric) - The Nature of People", 2014, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
- "Park (Desiree) - Persons: Theories and Perceptions: Preface, Introduction and TOC", 1972, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Reuscher (John) - Essays on the Metaphysical Foundations of Personal Identity", 1981, Book, Read = 6%, Footnote309
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Identity, Cause and Mind", 2003, Book, Read = 5%
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) & Swinburne (Richard) - Personal Identity", 1984, Book, Read = 11%
- "Slors (Marc) - Personal Identity and the Metaphysics of Mind", 1997, Book, Read = 4%, Footnote310
- "Slors (Marc) - The Diachronic Mind: An Essay on Personal Identity, Psychological Continuity and the Mind-Body Problem", 2001, Book, Read = 2%, Footnote311
- "Strawson (Peter) - Comments on Some Aspects of Peter Unger's Identity, Consciousness and Value", 1992, Internal PDF Link
- "Thomas (Alan), Ed. - Bernard Williams", 2007, Book, Read = 1%
- "Trupp (Andreas) - Why We Are Not What We Think We Are: A New Approach to the Nature of Personal Identity and of Time", 1987, Book, Read = 4%, Footnote312
- "Tye (Michael) - Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity", 2003, Book, Read = 5%
- "Unger (Peter) - Identity, Consciousness and Value: Reply to Reviewers", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Review of Unger's 'Identity, Consciousness and Value'", 1993, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Vesey (Godfrey N.A.) - Personal Identity: A Philosophical Analysis", 1974, Book, Read = 1%, Footnote313
- "White (Stephen) - The Desire to Survive", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- Lectures:
- "Funkhouser (Eric) - Metaphysics, Spring 2014", 2014, Book, Read = 97%, Footnote314
- Standard Collections:
- "Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity", 2016, Book, Read = 22%
- "Dancy (Jonathan), Ed. - Reading Parfit", 1997, Book, Read = 17%
- "Gasser (Georg) & Stefan (Matthias), Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?", 2012, Book, Read = 4%
- "Harris (Henry) - Identity - Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford", 1995, Book, Read = 4%, Footnote315
- "Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings", 2006, Book, Read = 30%
- "Kolak (Daniel) & Martin (Raymond), Eds. - Self and Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues", 1991, Book
- "Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John), Eds. - Personal Identity", 2003, Book, Read = 13%
- "Noonan (Harold), Ed. - Identity", 1993, Book, Read = 1%
- "Noonan (Harold), Ed. - Personal Identity (Readings)", 1993, Book
- "Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey) - Personal Identity: Introduction", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey), Eds. - Personal Identity", 2005, Book, Footnote316
- "Perry (John) - Identity, Personal Identity and the Self", 2002, Book, Read = 3%
- "Petrus (Klaus), Ed. - On Human Persons", 2003, Book, Read = 72%
- "Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader", 1997, Book, Read = 35%
- "Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg), Ed. - The Identities of Persons", 1976, Book, Read = 23%
- "Zimmerman (Dean) & Gendler (Tamar Szabo), Eds. - Monist Special Issue: Personal Identity", 2004, Book, Read = 2%
- Locke
- Locke317
- General:
- "Allison (Henry) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity: A Re-Examination", 1966
- "Alston (William) & Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke on People and Substances", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "Atherton (Margaret) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", 1983
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)", 1991, Book, Read = 17%
- "Baxter (Donald L.M.) - Abstraction, Inseparability, and Identity", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Behan (David P.) - Locke on Persons and Personal Identity", 1979
- "Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements", 2001
- "Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke's Philosophy of the Mind", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
- "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Locke, Property Dualism and Metaphysical Dualism", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Bolton (Martha Brandt) - Locke on Identity: The Scheme of Simple and Compound Things", 1994
- "Brody (Baruch) - Locke on the Identity of Persons", 1972, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Chandler (Hugh S.) - Shoemaker's Arguments Against Locke", 1969, Internal PDF Link
- "Chappell (Vere) - Locke on the Ontology of Matter, Living Things and Persons", 1990
- "Conn (Christopher Hughes) - Locke on Essence and Identity", 2003, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
- "Conn (Christopher Hughes) - Locke on Essence and Identity", 2003, Book
- "deClercq (Raphael) - A criterion of diachronic identity based on Locke's Principle", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Flew (Antony) - Locke and the Problem of Personal Identity", 1951, Internal PDF Link
- "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Locke, Essay, Book III, Chapter 3, 'Of General Terms'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Hamilton (Andy) - A New Look At Personal Identity", 1995, Internal PDF Link
- "Hughes (M.W.) - Personal Identity: A Defence of Locke", 1975, Internal PDF Link
- "Kaufman (Dan) - Locke on Individuation and the Corpuscular Basis of Kinds", 2008?, Internal PDF Link
- "Kaufman (Dan) - Review of Christopher Hughes Conn: Locke on Essence and Identity", 2005, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Kaufman (Dan) - The Resurrection of the Same Body and the Ontological Status of Organisms: What Locke Should Have (and Could Have) Told Stillingfleet", 2008?, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kornblith (Hilary) - Locke and Natural Kinds", 1995
- "Loptson (Peter) - Locke, Reid, and Personal Identity", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Identity, Individuality, and Unity", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Mackie (J.L.) - Identity and Diversity", 1976, Footnote318
- "Mackie (J.L.) - Personal Identity", 1976
- "Mattern (Ruth) - Moral Science and the Concept of a Person in Locke", 1980, No Abstract
- "McCall (Catherine) - Locke's Account of Personal Identity", 1990
- "McCann (Edwin) - Locke's Philosophy of Body", 1994, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Locke on Personal Identity", 1980, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Locke on Personal Identity", 1978, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Persons and Their Pasts", 1970, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Strawson (Galen) - 'The Secrets of All Hearts': Locke on Personal Identity", 2015, Read = 11%
- "Strawson (Galen) - 'Where our responsibility lies': Locke on personal identity", 2015+, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 24%
- "Trigg (Roger) - Ideas of Human Nature: Locke", 1999, No Abstract
- "Uzgalis (William) - The Anti-Essential Locke and Natural Kinds", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "Wedeking (Gary) - Locke's Metaphysics of Personal Identity", 1987
- "Wilson (Fred) - Substance and Self in Locke and Hume", 1994
- Forensic Property319
- General:
- "Archer (Alfred) & Matheson (Benjamin) - When Artists Fall: Honoring and Admiring the Immoral", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and the Natural Order", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Benatar (David) - Better Never to Have Been: The Harm Of Coming Into Existence", 2008, Book, Read = 1%
- "Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements", 2001
- "Berghmans (Ron L.P.) - Ethical Hazards of the Substituted Judgement Test in Decision Making Concerning the End of Life of Dementia Patients", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Bernstein (Mark H.) - On Moral Considerability - An Essay on Who Morally Matters", 1998, Book
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Williams, Smith, and the Peculiarity of Piacularity", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Blustein (Jeffrey) - Choosing for others as continuing a life story: The problem of personal identity revisited", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Brennan (Andrew) - Concepts of a Person", 1988
- "Caruso (Gregg D.) - Skepticism About Moral Responsibility", 2003-15, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) - The Relevance of Metaphysics to Bioethics: A Reply to Earl Conee", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Conee (Earl) - Metaphysics and the morality of abortion", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Cureton (Adam) - Offensive Beneficence", 2016, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Degaynesford (Maximilian) - Review of 'The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics'", 2002, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "DeGrazia (David) - Must We Have Full Moral Status Throughout Our Existence? A Reply to Alfonso Gómez-Lobo", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Forrester (Mary) - Problems and Persons: Preface", 1996, Annotations, Read = 67%
- "Goodnight (Audra L.) - A Life Worth Living: Value and Responsibility", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Johnston (Mark) - What Is Found At The Center?", 2010, Read = 4%
- "Kavka (Gregory S.) - The Paradox of Future Individuals", 1982, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Keba (Andrej) - The Concept of Self-Identity and Moral Conflicts", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Kolak (Daniel) - I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics", 2004, Book, Read = 1%
- "Lockwood (Michael), Ed. - Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine", 1986, Book, Read = 29%
- "Magnusson (Erik) - Children’s rights and the non-identity problem", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "McCall (Catherine) - Moral Personhood", 1990
- "Morris (Herbert) - Persons and Punishment", 1968
- "Morse (Jennifer) - Rationality Means Being Willing to Say You're Sorry", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Nisan (Mordecai) - Personal Identity and Education for the Desirable", 1996
- "Poltera (Jacqui) - Is Personal Identity Evaluative?", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Radest (Howard B.) - Biomedical Ethics: Humanist Perspectives", 2006, Book, Read = 1%
- "Robinson (Denis) - Failing To Agree Or Failing To Disagree?: Personal Identity Quasi-Relativism", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
- "Rovane (Carol) - The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics", 1998, Book
- "Schechtman (Marya) - Review of 'The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics'", 1999, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Practical Concerns", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Theoretical Persons and Practical Agents", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Slors (Marc) - Personal Identity and Responsibility for Past Actions", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Stenning (Anna) - Understanding empathy through a study of autistic life writing", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
- "Strawson (Galen) - 'The Secrets of All Hearts': Locke on Personal Identity", 2015, Read = 11%
- "Strawson (Galen) - 'Where our responsibility lies': Locke on personal identity", 2015+, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 24%
- "Tiberius (Valerie) - The Reflective Life: Living Wisely with Our Limits", 2010, Book
- "Velleman (David) - Beyond Price", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Velleman (David) - Beyond Price: Papers On Life And Death", 2015, Book, Read = 6%
- "Wallace (Kathleen) - Agency, Personhood, and Identity: Carol Rovane's The Bounds of Agency", 2000, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Wandinger (Nikolaus) - The Rationale behind Purgatory", 2010, Read = 13%
- "Williams (Bernard) - Moral Incapacity", 1993, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - The Idea of Equality", 1999, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Woollard (Fiona) - Have We Solved the Non-Identity Problem?", 2012, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Woollard (Fiona) - The New Problem of Numbers in Morality", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- The Psychological View
- Psychological View320
- General:
- "Agar (Nicholas) - Functionalism and Personal Identity", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Beck (Simon) - Let's Exist Again (Like We Did Last Summer)", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Brueckner (Anthony) - Branching in the psychological approach to personal identity", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Campbell (Scott) - The Conception of a Person as a Series of Mental Events", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Dainton (Barry) - The Phenomenal Self", 2008, Book, Read = 1%
- "DeGrazia (David) - Human Persons: Numerical Identity and Essence", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Francescotti (Robert) - Psychological Continuity and the Necessity of Identity", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Harrison (Jonathan) - Heir of Frankenstein or Justified True Belief and Personal Identity", 1978, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Who Doesn't Have a Problem of Too Many Thinkers?", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Johnston (Mark) - Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?", 2010, Read = 78%
- "Robinson (Denis) - Constitution and the Debate between Animalism and Psychological Views", 2016, Read = 24%
- "Rovane (Carol) - Self-Reference: The Radicalization of Locke", 1992, Internal PDF Link
- "Unger (Peter) - All the Power in the World", 2006, Book
- Psychology321
- General:
- "Andrewes (David) - Neuropsychology: From Theory to Practice", 2004, Book, Read = 1%
- "Ariew (Andre), Cummins (Robert) & Perlman (Mark) - Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology", 2002, Book
- "Barkow (Jerome), Cosmides (Leda) & Tooby (John), Eds. - The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture", 1995, Book, Read = 1%
- "Block (Ned), Ed. - Readings in Philosophy of Psychology - Vol 1", 1980, Book, Read = 7%
- "Block (Ned), Ed. - Readings in Philosophy of Psychology - Vol 2", 1981, Book
- "Cosmides (Leda) & Tooby (John) - Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
- "Ellis (Andrew) & Young (Andrew) - Human Cognitive Neuropsychology: A Textbook with Readings", 1988 / 1997, Book
- "Gleitman (Henry), Fridlund (Alan J.) & Reisberg (Daniel) - Psychology", 1999, Book
- "Glover (Jonathan) - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity", 1988, Book, Read = 6%
- "Gray (Peter) - Psychology", 2007, Book, Read = 2%
- "Greenwood (John), Ed. - The Future of Folk Psychology - Intentionality and Cognitive Science", 1991, Book
- "Gustafson (Donald), Ed. - Essays in Philosophical Psychology", 1964, Book
- "Hayes (Nicky) - Foundations of Psychology - An Introductory Text", 1994, Book
- "Horgan (Terence) & Tienson (John) - Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology", 1996, Book, Read = 15%
- "Jacquette (Dale), Ed. - Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy", 2003, Book
- "MacDonald (Cynthia) & MacDonald (Graham), Eds. - The Philosophy of Psychology: Debates in Psychological Explanation - Vol. 1", 1995, Book, Read = 4%
- "Marcus (Gary) - The Norton Psychology Reader", 2006, Book, Read = 3%
- "Matthews (Gareth B.) - Animals and the Unity of Psychology", 1978, Internal PDF Link
- "Millikan (Ruth Garrett) - White Queen Psychology", 1995, Book
- "Myers (David) - Psychology", 1998, Book
- "Rapp (Brenda), Ed. - The Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology: What Deficits Reveal About the Human Mind", 2001, Book
- "Stich (Stephen) - From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science - The Case Against Belief", 1983, Book, Read = 1%
- "Unger (Peter) - Towards a Psychology of Common Sense", 1982, No Abstract
- "Weiten (Wayne) - Psychology: Themes and Variations", 1995, Book
- "Wright (Craig) - The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness", 2020, Book, Read = 2%
- Psychological Criterion322
- General:
- "Baillie (James) - Memory", 1993, Read = 7%
- "Baillie (James) - Personal Identity And Mental Content", 1997, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Belzer (Marvin) - Notes on Relation R", 1996, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?", 1997, Write-Up Note323, Read = 156%
- "McCall (Catherine) - Physical and Psychological Criteria of Personal Identity", 1990
- "Slors (Marc) - A Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity: The Five Problems Revisited (Personal Identity and the Metaphysics of Mind, Chapter 4)", 1997
- "Slors (Marc) - A Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity: The Five Problems Revisited (The Diachronic Mind, Chapter 5)", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Slors (Marc) - Personal Identity, Memory, and Circularity: An Alternative for Q-Memory", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- Psychological Continuity324
- General:
- "Buchanan (Allen) - Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "Francescotti (Robert) - Psychological Continuity and the Necessity of Identity", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Garavaso (Pieranna) - Psychological Continuity: A Discussion of Marc Slors’ Account, Traumatic Experience, and the Significance of our Relations to Others", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Hershenov (David) - The Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Kitcher (Patricia) - Being Selfish about Your Future", 1977, Internal PDF Link
- "Kitcher (Patricia) - The Crucial Relation in Personal Identity", 1978
- "Madell (Geoffrey) - Personal Identity Through Time", 1981
- "Merricks (Trenton) - Endurance, Psychological Continuity, and the Importance of Personal Identity", 1999
- "Merricks (Trenton) - Perdurance and Psychological Continuity", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - The Thinking Animal Problem and Personal Pronoun Revisionism", 2010, Internal PDF Link
- "Oaklander (L. Nathan) - Perry, Personal Identity and the 'Characteristic Way'", 1984, No Abstract
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 129%
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Brains", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Ord (Toby) - Implications of fission, fusion and teletransportation to a view of personal identity through psychological continuity", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
- "Rea (Michael) & Silver (David) - Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Schechtman (Marya) - Diversity in unity: practical unity and personal boundaries", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Schechtman (Marya) - The Same and the Same: Two Views of Psychological Continuity", 1994, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Unger's Psychological Continuity Theory", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Slors (Marc) - A Content-Oriented Conception of Psychological Continuity", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Slors (Marc) - Personal Identity, Memory, and Circularity: An Alternative for Q-Memory", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Slors (Marc) - The Diachronic Mind: An Essay on Personal Identity, Psychological Continuity and the Mind-Body Problem", 2001, Book, Read = 2%
- "Slors (Marc) - Two Conceptions of Psychological Continuity", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- Forward Psychological Continuity325
- General:
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?", 1997, Write-Up Note326, Read = 156%
- "Dainton (Barry) - Consciousness as a Guide to Personal Persistence", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
- "Dainton (Barry) - The Phenomenal Self", 2008, Book, Read = 1%
- "Sider (Ted) - Asymmetric Personal Identity", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Torek (Paul Volkening) - Something To Look Forward To: Personal Identity, Prudence, and Ethics", 1995, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
- "Whiting (Jennifer E.) - Friends and Future Selves", 1986, Internal PDF Link
- Memory
- Memory327
- General:
- "Bernecker (Sven) - Memory: A Philosophical Study", 2010, Book, Read = 1%
- "Bernecker (Sven) - Memory: A Philosophical Study - Introduction & Concluding Remarks", 2009, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
- "Bernecker (Sven) - Remembering Without Knowing", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Bernecker (Sven) - Remembering Without Knowing", 2009
- "Bernecker (Sven) - The Metaphysics of Memory", 2008, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 2%
- "Bernecker (Sven) - The Metaphysics of Memory", 2008, Book, Read = 1%
- "Campbell (Sue) - Women, 'False' Memory, And Personal Identity", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Coliva (Annalisa) - Error through Misidentification: Some Varieties", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Frankfurt (Harry) - Memory and the Cartesian Circle", 1962, Internal PDF Link
- "Ginet (Carl) - Knowledge, Perception and Memory", 1975, Book
- "Greenwood (Terence) - Personal Identity and Memory", 1967, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Heersmink (Richard) - Distributed selves - personal identity and extended memory systems", 2017, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Hershenov (David) - The Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Kandel (Eric R.) - The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kapur (Narinder) & Abbott (Pat) - A Study of Recovery of Memory Function in a Case of Witnessed Functional Retrograde Amnesia", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Kihlstrom (John F.), Beer (Jennifer S.) & Klein (Stanley B.) - Self and Identity as Memory", 2002, Internal PDF Link
- "Lin (Martin) - Memory and Personal Identity in Spinoza", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Markowitsch (Hans J.), Fink (Gereon R.), Thone (Angelika), Kessler (Josef) & Heiss (Wolf-Dieter) - A PET Study of Persistent Psychogenic Amnesia Covering the Whole Life Span", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Martin (C.B.) & Deutscher (Max) - Remembering", 1966, Internal PDF Link
- "Miri (Mrinal) - Memory and Personal Identity", 1973, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Mitias (Lara M.) - Memory, reality and the value of the past", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Neisser (Ulric) - Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts", 1982, Book
- "Noonan (Harold) - Memory and Quasi-Memory", 1980, Internal PDF Link
- "Northoff (G.) - Do Brain Tissue Transplants Alter Personal Identity? Inadequacies of Some 'Standard' Arguments", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Nurius (Paula S.) - Human Memory: A Basis for Better Understanding the Elusive Self-Concept", 1993, Internal PDF Link
- "Palma (A.B.) - Memory and Personal Identity", 1964
- "Penelhum (Terence) - Memory and Personal Identity", 1970, No Abstract
- "Puccetti (Roland) - Memory and Self: A Neuropathological Approach", 1977, Internal PDF Link
- "Puccetti (Roland) - Remembering the Past of Another", 1973, Internal PDF Link
- "Rau (Philipp) - The Author, Not the Tale: Memory, Narrative, and the Self", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Schechtman (Marya) - Memory and identity", 2011, Internal PDF Link
- "Schechtman (Marya) - The Truth About Memory", 1994
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self-Identity and the Contents of Memory", 1963, No Abstract
- "Trakas (Marina) - Personal Memories", 2014, Internal PDF Link
- "Tzinman (Rina) - Memory, Organisms and the Circle of Life", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Wearing (Deborah) - Forever Today - A Memoir of Love and Amnesia", 2005, Book, Read = 10%
- "Wikipedia - Anterograde amnesia", External Link, Read = 17%
- "Wikipedia - Retrograde amnesia", External Link, Read = 12%
- "Wilson (Anne) & Ross (Michael) - The identity function of autobiographical memory: Time is on our side", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Wollheim (Richard) - Experiential Memory, Introjection, and the inner World", 1984, No Abstract
- "Wollheim (Richard) - Memory, Experiential Memory and Personal Identity", 1979, No Abstract
- "Young (J.Z.) - Memory and Its Models", 1979, Read = 8%
- Methuselah328
- General:
- "Briggs (Rachael) & Nolan (Daniel) - Utility Monsters for the Fission Age", 2015, Internal PDF Link
- "Butkovic (Ana) - Does Identity Really Matter? Parfit vs Lewis", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "So (Paul) - Lewis’ Personal Identity", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Quasi-Memory329
- General:
- "Baillie (James) - Aspects of Non-Reductionism", 1993
- "Berglund (Stefan) - Problems of Reductive Personalism", 1995
- "Bernecker (Sven) - Personal Identity and Memory", 2010
- "Collins (Arthur) - Personal Identity And Coherence Of Q-Memory", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Shoemaker, 'Persons and their Pasts'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Noonan (Harold) - Memory and Quasi-Memory", 1980, Internal PDF Link
- "Northoff (G.) - Are 'Q-Memories' Empirically Realistic? A Neurophilosophical Approach", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Puccetti (Roland) - Remembering the Past of Another", 1973, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Reply To Wiggins", 2004
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity", 2001, Read = 43%
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker's Reply", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- Sleep330
- General:
- "Churchland (Patricia) - Reduction and the neurobiological basis of consciousness", 1988
- "Gray (Peter) - Mechanisms of Motivation and Emotion", 2007
- "Johnston (Mark) - Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?", 2010, Read = 78%
- "Johnston (Mark) - What Is Found At The Center?", 2010, Read = 4%
- "MacDonald (Margaret) - Sleeping and Waking", 1964
- "Martin (Paul) - Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams", 2002, Book, Read = 1%
- "Oswald (Ian) - Sleep", 1970, Book
- "Revonsuo (Antti) - The reinterpretation of dreams - An evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
- "Revonsuo (Antti), Tuominen (Jarno) & Valli (Katja) - The Avatars in the Machine: Dreaming as a Simulation of Social Reality", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Sharma (Ramesh Kumar) - Dreamless Sleep and Some Related Philosophical Issues", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Squires (Roger) - Dream Time", 1995
- "Various - Peer review of Walker's 'A refined model of sleep …'", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Walker (Matthew P.) - A refined model of sleep and the time course of memory formation", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Walker (Matthew P.) - Past, present, and the future: Discussions surrounding a new model of sleep-dependent learning and memory processing", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Walker (Matthew P.) - Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams", 2018, Book, Read = 16%
- "Wright (N.T.) - Time to Wake Up (1): Death and Beyond in the Old Testament", 2003
Other Philosophers of Note
- Descartes331
- Descartes:
- "Descartes (Rene), Cottingham (John), Stoothoff (Robert), Murdoch (Dugald) - The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Vol I", 1985, Book
- "Descartes (Rene), Cottingham (John), Stoothoff (Robert), Murdoch (Dugald) - The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Vol II", 1984, Book
- "Descartes (Rene), Cottingham (John), Stoothoff (Robert), Murdoch (Dugald), Kenny (Anthony) - The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Vol III - The Correspondence", 1991, Book
- General:
- "Bloom (Paul) - Descartes' Baby: How Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human", 2004, Book
- "Cottingham (John), Ed. - Descartes: Oxford Readings in Philosophy", 1998, Book
- "Cottingham (John), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Descartes", 1999, Book
- "Davis (Philip) & Hersh (Reuben) - Descartes' Dream - the World According to Mathematics", 1986, Book, Read = 1%
- "Fowler (C.F.) - Descartes on the Human Soul: Philosophy and the Demands of Christian Doctrine", 1999, Book
- "Garber (Daniel) - Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science", 2000, Book
- "Gorham (Geoffrey) - Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts", 2002, Read = 7%
- "Harrison (Peter) - Descartes on Animals", 1992, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Matthews (Gareth B.) - Augustine and Descartes on the Souls of Animals", 1999, No Abstract
- "Ryle (Gilbert) - Descartes' Myth", 1949, No Abstract
- "Skirry (Justin) - Descartes and the Metaphysics of Human Nature", 2005, Book
- "Sprague (Elmer) - Descartes's Concept of Mind", 1999
- "Strathern (Paul) - Descartes in 90 Minutes", 1996, Book, Read = 1%
- "von Wright (G.H.) - In the Shadow of Descartes: Essays in the Philosophy oi Mind", 1998, Book
- "Williams (Bernard) - Descartes - The Project of Pure Enquiry", 1978, Book
- "Wilson (Margaret) - Descartes", 1982 / 1999, Book
- "Woolhouse (Roger) - Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz - The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics", 1993, Book, Read = 7%
- Kant332
- General:
- "Bennett (Jonathan) - The Simplicity of the Soul", 1967, Internal PDF Link
- "Gardner (Sebastian) - Kant", 1999
- "Guyer (Paul) - The Cambridge Companion to Kant", 1992, Book
- "Kitcher (Patricia) - Kant on Self-Identity", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Kitcher (Patricia) - Kant's Paralogisms", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Korner (Stephan) - Kant", 1977, Book
- "Korsgaard (Christine) - Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Strawson (Peter) - The Bounds of Sense - An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason", 1966, Book, Read = 1%
- "Stroud (Barry) - Transcendental Arguments", 1968, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Taylor (Charles) - The Validity of Transcendental Arguments", 1979, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Varden (Helga) - Kant and Lying to the Murderer at the Door - One More Time: Kant’s Legal Philosophy and Lies to Murderers and Nazis", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Kant on Personal Identity:
- "Ameriks (Karl) - Identity", 2000
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?", 1997, Write-Up Note333, Read = 156%
- "Korsgaard (Christine) - Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit", 1996, Footnote334
- "Trigg (Roger) - Ideas of Human Nature: Kant", 1999, No Abstract
- Leibniz335
- General:
- "Castaneda (Hector-Neri) - Leibniz's Concepts and their Coincidence Salva Veritate", 1974, Internal PDF Link
- "Curley (Edwin) - Did Leibniz state 'Leibniz' Law'?", 1971, Internal PDF Link
- "Greenberg (Sean) - The Matrix and Monadology: Leibnizian Themes and The Matrix", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Gut (Przemyslaw) - Leibniz: Personal Identity and Sameness of Substance", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 20%
- "Ishiguro (Hide) - Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language", 1991, Book, Read = 1%
- "Jolley (Nicholas), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz", 1995, Book
- "Langford (Simon) & Ramachandran (Murali) - Rigidity, Occasional Identity and Leibniz's Law", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "MacDonald Ross (George) - Leibniz", 1984, Book
- "McCullough (Laurence) - Leibniz’s Principle of Individuation in His Disputatio metaphysica de principio individui of 1663", 1994
- "Myrdal (Peter) - Moral Identity and Love in Leibniz", 2008, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 47%
- "Pratt (Vernon) - One for Leibniz", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Savile (Anthony) - Leibniz and the Monadology", 2000, Book
- Leibniz:
- "Leibniz (Gottfried) - What Identity Or Diversity Is", 1997, Read = 25%
- "Leibniz (Gottfried), Remnant (Peter), Bennett (Jonathan) - New Essays on Human Understanding", 1997, Book, Read = 2%
- Lewis336
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Does Naturalism Rest on a Mistake?", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Reductive Approaches to the First-Person Perspective", 2013, Footnote337
- "Belzer (Marvin) - Self-Conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Grip of the Unity Reaction", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Lewis, 'Survival and Identity'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Hawley (Katherine) - David Lewis on Persistence", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Read = 44%
- "Jackson (Frank) & Priest (Graham), Eds. - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis", 2004, Book, Read = 5%
- "Moyer (Mark) - A Survival Guide to Fission", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Roberts (Melinda) - Lewis's Theory Of Personal Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (J. Robbie G.) - An Argument for the Many", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- Lewis:
- "Lewis (David) - Counterparts or Double Lives", 1986
- "Lewis (David) - Individuation By Acquaintance and By Stipulation", 1983, Internal PDF Link
- "Lewis (David) - Many, But Almost One", 1999 Reprint, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Lewis (David) - Noneism or Allism?", 1990
- "Lewis (David) - Philosophical Papers Volume II", 1986, Book, Read = 15%
- "Lewis (David) - Vague Identity: Evans Misunderstood", 1988, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- Parfit338
- General:
- "Alexander (Ronald) - A Major Problem With Parfit", 1997, Read = 11%
- "Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity: Introduction", 1997, Read = 167%
- "Atkins (Kim) - Personal Identity and the Importance of One's Own Body: A Response to Derek Parfit", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Beck (Simon) - Parfit and the Russians", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Belshaw (Christopher) - More Lives, Better Lives", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Belzer (Marvin) - Notes on Relation R", 1996, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Belzer (Marvin) - Self-Conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Grip of the Unity Reaction", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?", 1997, Write-Up Note339, Read = 156%
- "Bodanszky (Eva) - Parfit on Selves and Their Interests", 1987, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Brennan (Andrew) - Personal Identity and Personal Survival", 1982, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Brueckner (Anthony) - Parfit On What Matters In Survival", 1993, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Butkovic (Ana) - Does Identity Really Matter? Parfit vs Lewis", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Campbell (Scott) - Strawson, Parfit and Impersonality", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Cooper (Wesley) - Parfit, Heroic Death, and Symbolic Utility", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Craig (William Lane) - McTaggart's Paradox and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", 1998, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Dancy (Jonathan), Ed. - Reading Parfit", 1997, Book, Read = 17%
- "Ehring (Douglas) - Personal identity and the R-relation: Reconciliation through cohabitation?", 1995, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Fields (Lloyd) - Parfit On Personal Identity And Desert", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Frederick (Shane) - Time Preference & Personal Identity", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Gale (Richard) - Parfit's Arguments against Partially Relativised Theories of Rationality", 2003, No Abstract
- "Gendler (Tamar Szabo) - Personal Identity and Thought Experiments", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Hooker (Brad) - Parfit's Arguments for the Present-Aim Theory", 1992, Internal PDF Link
- "Jeske (Diane) - Persons, Compensation, and Utilitarianism", 1993, Internal PDF Link
- "Johnston (Mark) - A New Refutation Of Death", 2010, Read = 3%
- "Johnston (Mark) - Fission and the Facts", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 21%
- "Johnston (Mark) - Reasons and Reductionism", 1992, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Kamm (F.M.) - The Asymmetry Problem: Death and Prenatal Nonexistence", 1993
- "Kind (Amy) - The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Special Concern for the Future", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Korsgaard (Christine) - Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Kuhn (Steven) - Prisoner’s Dilemma", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Lewis (David) - Prisoners' Dilemma is a Newcomb Problem", 1979, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
- "Luper (Steven) - Past Desires and the Dead", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Madell (Geoffrey) - Derek Parfit and Greta Garbo", 1985, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Margolis (Joseph) - Review of Derek Parfit's 'Reasons and Persons'", 1986, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John) - Self-concern From Priestley To Hazlitt", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "McCall (Catherine) - Assessment of Parfit's Analysis", 1990
- "McCall (Catherine) - Parfit's Theory of Personal Identity", 1990
- "Merricks (Trenton) - Review of Jonathan Dancy's 'Reading Parfit'", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Mulgan (Tim) - Two Parfit Puzzles", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Nozick (Robert) - Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice", 1969, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Penelhum (Terence) - The Importance of Self-Identity", 1971, Internal PDF Link
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Personal Identity, Minimalism, And Madhyamaka", 2002, Internal PDF Link
- "Perry (John) - Time, Fission, and Personal Identity", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Rachels (Stuart) - A Set of Solutions to Parfit’s Problems", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Rachels (Stuart) - Repugnance or Intransitivity: A Repugnant But Forced Choice", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Regan (Donald) - Comments on Parfit's 'Personal Identity and Rationality'", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Roberts (Melinda) - Lewis's Theory Of Personal Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link
- "Robinson (John) - Personal Identity and Survival", 1988, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Rovane (Carol) - Branching Self-Consciousness", 1990, Internal PDF Link
- "Ryberg (Jesper) - The Repugnant Conclusion and Worthwhile Living", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Schechtman (Marya) - Personhood and Personal Identity", 1990, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Schechtman (Marya) - Self and Self-Interest", 2002, Internal PDF Link
- "Schultz (Bart) - Persons, Selves, and Utilitarianism", 1986, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Seibt (Johanna) - Fission, Sameness, and Survival: Parfit’s Branch Line Argument Revisited", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Disintegrated Persons and Distributive Principles", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Shoemaker (David) - Selves and Moral Units", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Utilitarianism and Personal Identity", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Parfit on Identity", 1997, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Review of Derek Parfit's 'Reasons and Persons'", 1985, No Abstract
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self and Substance", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Sider (Ted) - Might Theory X Be a Theory of Diminishing Marginal Value", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Slors (Marc) - Care for one's own future experiences", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Slors (Marc) - Parfit's Reductio of a Substratum-Oriented Conception of Psychological Continuity", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Sowden (Lanning) - Review: Parfit on Self-Interest, Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism: A Selective Critique of Parfit's 'Reasons and Persons'", 1986, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Taurek (John M.) - Should the Numbers Count?", 1978, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
- "Thomson (Judith Jarvis) - Ruminations On an Account of Personal Identity", 1987, No Abstract
- "Timmerman (Travis) - Does scrupulous securitism stand-up to scrutiny?", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Valberg (J.J.) - My Future", 2007
- "Valberg (J.J.) - My Future: The Puzzle of Division", 2007
- "Velleman (David) - Persons in Prospect (Revised)", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Velleman (David) - The Identity Problem", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Footnote340
- "Vettori (Iacopo) - Commentary About Derek Parfit’s book 'Reasons and Persons - Part Three - Personal identity'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Vorobej (Mark) - Past Desires", 1998, Internal PDF Link
- "Vorobej (Mark) - Timeless Reasons", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "White (Stephen) - Metapsychological Relativism and the Self", 1989, Internal PDF Link
- "Wikipedia - Newcomb's Paradox", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
- "Williams (Christopher) - On Sameness And Selfhood", 1991, Internal PDF Link
- "Wolf (Susan) - Self-Interest and Interest in Selves", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Materialism, Dualism, and “Simple” Theories of Personal Identity", 2012, Internal PDF Link
- Parfit:
- "Parfit (Derek) - A reply to Sterba", 1987, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Acts and outcomes: a reply to Boonin-Vail", 1996, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Parfit (Derek) - An attack on the social discount rate", 1980, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Parfit (Derek) - An Interview with Derek Parfit", 1995, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Another defence of the priority view", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Bombs and coconuts, or rational irrationality", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Can we avoid the repugnant conclusion?", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Comments", 1986, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Correspondence - 1", 1981, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Equality and priority", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Equality or priority?", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Future Generations: Further Problems", 1982, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Future people, the non-identity problem, and person-affecting principles", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Innumerate ethics", 1978, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Is Common-Sense Morality Self-Defeating?", 1979, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - Is personal identity what matters?", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Justifiability to Each Person", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Kant’s arguments for his formula of universal law", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Normativity", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Parfit (Derek) - On 'The Importance of Self-Identity'", 1971, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Overpopulation and the Quality of Life", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Paul Seabright: pluralism and the standard of living", 1993, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Personal and omnipersonal duties", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Personal Identity and Rationality", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - Prudence, morality, and the prisoner's dilemma", 1979, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%, Footnote341
- "Parfit (Derek) - Rationality and Reasons", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Rationality and Time", 1983, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Reasons and Motivation", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - Responses", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Rights, interests, and possible people", 1976, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Parfit (Derek) - The Indeterminacy Of Identity: A Reply To Brueckner", 1993, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Parfit (Derek) - The Puzzle of Reality: Why Does the Universe Exist?", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 244%
- "Parfit (Derek) - The Unimportance of Identity", 1995, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Parfit (Derek) - We Are Not Human Beings", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 38%
- "Parfit (Derek) - What We Could Rationally Will", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 61%
- "Parfit (Derek) - What We Together Do", 1988, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Parfit (Derek) - Why anything? Why this?", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Parfit (Derek) & Cowen (Tyler) - Against the social discount rate", 1992, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Parfit (Derek) & Fried (Charles) - Correspondence - 2", 1979, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
- Wittgenstein342
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Does Naturalism Rest on a Mistake?", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%, Footnote343
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - On the Very Idea of a Form of Life", 1984, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'Understanding Wittgenstein: Studies of Philosophical Investigations' by J.M.F. Hunter", 1986, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - What We Do: A Nonreductive Approach to Human Action", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Headhunters", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
- "Brandom (Robert) - Toward a Normative Pragmatics", 1994, Write-Up Note344, Read = 50%, Footnote345
- "Button (Tim) - Wittgenstein on Solipsism in the 1930s: Private Pains, Private Languages, and Two Uses of ‘I’", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Chihara (Charles S.) & Fodor (Jerry) - Operationalism and Ordinary Language: A Critique of Wittgenstein", 1983
- "Clarke (D.S.) - A Defence of the No-Ownership Theory", 1972, Internal PDF Link
- "Dummett (Michael) - Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics", 1959, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Fogelin (Robert) - Wittgenstein on Identity", 1992
- "Garrett (Brian) - Cartesianism and the Private Language Argument", 2002, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Wittgenstein and the First Person", 1995, Internal PDF Link
- "Ming-Yang (Michael) - Privacy, Individuation, and Recognition", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Moore (G.E.) - Wittgenstein's Lectures in 1930-33: Part I", 1954, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Moore (G.E.) - Wittgenstein's Lectures in 1930-33: Part II", 1954, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Moore (G.E.) - Wittgenstein's Lectures in 1930-33: Part III", 1955, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Moyal-Sharrock (Danièle) - The Good Sense of Nonsense: a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus as nonself-repudiating", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Murray (David) - Disembodied Brains", 1970
- "Pears (David) - The False Prison - A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy (Vol. 1)", 1987, Book
- "Pears (David) - Wittgenstein", 1985, Book
- "Travis (Charles) - Private Experience", 2006, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Van Evra (James) - On Death as a Limit", 1971, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Wiggins (David) - Wittgenstein on Ethics and the Riddle of Life", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Christopher) - Wittgenstein; Identity Not a Relation", 1989
- "Wright (Crispin) - Kripke's Account of the Argument Against Private Language", 1984, Internal PDF Link
- "Wright (Crispin) - Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mind: Sensation, Privacy, and Intention", 1989, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 2:
- This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (06/07/2023 00:43:12).
- Link to Latest Write-Up Note.
Footnote 4: Footnote 13:
- The hyperlinks in this Introduction – as in the other Chapter Introductions – are intended to help motivate the various Notes used in the construction of the Chapter.
- So, a link appears once and once only per Note in the Note Hierarchy below, and appears – as far as possible – in the order of the Hierarchy, even if this is not its first mention.
- Links to other Notes are omitted in the Chapter Introduction, but appear passim in the Main Text.
Footnote 139:
- On an endurantist account of persistence – see elsewhere for the distinction and it’s relevance to this case – between endurantism and perdurantism.
Footnote 140:
- I don’t think this is a tendentious term.
- The intended use of the machine is to produce an exact copy without destroying the original.
- So, this isn’t the same as Dennett’s “Telecloning” machine in "Dennett (Daniel) - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul: Introduction", where the destruction of the original is intended, yet (despite the label) the machine is used as a means of transport.
Footnote 154: In "Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) - Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality".
Footnote 167:
- This text is all a bit of a jumble.
- I need to revise it after re-reading, and commenting on, "Lewis (David) - Survival and Identity", in which the TE appears.
Footnote 174:
- I need to re-read Parfit to see what he means (assuming he said this!).
- I have a Note on Degrees of Personhood, but it is talking about something else, I think.
Footnote 185:
- In "Snowdon (Paul) - The Self and Personal Identity".
Footnote 190:
- In Paul Broks’s contribution to "Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) - Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?".
Footnote 195:
- “To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”
→ Hamlet, Act-III, Scene-I, Lines 66-68
Footnote 240:
- See the section on Research Methodology for what is to be done with these.
Footnote 246: Footnotes 247, 264: Footnote 248: Footnote 249:
- This is the series of lectures that first engaged me with the topic of Personal Identity.
Footnote 250:
- This is a set of papers for discussion in a research seminar. Most are probably covered elsewhere, but in case not …
Footnote 251:
- I attended some Graduate Seminars on Personal Identity by Paul Snowdon (not the lectures above), but I can’t find any handouts.
Footnote 256: Footnote 263:
- This Chapter has rather more to do with distributive ethics than personal identity or the FPP.
Footnote 275: Footnote 277: Footnote 294: Footnote 296: Footnote 298: Footnote 300: Footnote 301: Footnote 302:
- Restrict a close reading to Part 3 (Personal Identity).
Footnote 307:
- As this is a PhD Thesis in my general subject-area, I ought at least to have read it!
Footnote 308:
- Somewhat elementary, but worth (re-)reading quickly
Footnotes 309, 312:
- The works by Reuscher and Trupp are too eccentric to be given any priority.
Footnotes 310, 311:
- The works by Slors may be worth reading as a fairly contemporary defence of the psychological view; but as low priority.
Footnote 313:
- The work by Vesey is too out of date to be a priority item.
Footnote 314:
- This is a course of lectures on Metaphysics, at the advanced undergraduate / beginning graduate level.
- All the issues raised – in the discussion of standard papers – many of them covered elsewhere in my Thesis – are useful background.
- In particular, see the Note on Causation, which reviews some papers in this list.
- This set of lectures will be covered in Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), and so is referenced in my Note on Metaphysics.
Footnote 315:
- Harris is an interesting case, in that it includes three important papers and three that are off-topic, but important in illustrating the divergent usages of the term “identity”.
Footnote 316:
- This is more recent than the other standard collections.
Footnote 318:
- “Hume’s claim that identity is a fiction”.
Footnote 334: Footnote 337: Footnote 340: Footnote 341: Footnote 343:
- I have selected this and other items by Lynne Rudder Baker because her Constitution View is one of the main areas of my research.
- I have also favoured others of the ‘usual suspects’ in this regard.
Footnote 345:
- See sections I:1-3.
- See Draft Note, Review Comments.
- This excerpt from Brandom raises some questions about the community we call “we”.
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