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Personal Identity
Self-Consciousness
(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)
Plug Note1
- Thesis Text:
- Self-consciousness is more than just phenomenal consciousness2 (which may be a watershed in itself with moral consequences greater than are generally accepted) but the consciousness of oneself as a self3 (as Locke4 noted).
- But we need also consider the view that this “watcher” is an illusion, a falsely-assumed Cartesian Ego5 whose existence is undermined by neuroscience, the modularity of mind, and such-like.
- I was alerted to a quotation from "Updike (John) - Self-Consciousness":-
“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? ”
- While superficially profound, I think this idea is muddled in several respects:-
- Death6 is a biological event that – at least in the ordinary case – can happen to an organism only once.
- So, whatever Selves7 are, they don’t die every night. Follow the links above for further discussion.
- We do indeed “wake slightly altered”; indeed, we alter slightly whenever we encounter an event that has an impact on us.
- I’m not sure what Updike means by our “selves” being “conditional”, but I can well believe it.
- Updike seems to subscribe to some “strict and philosophical8” view of identity, whereby nothing survives change. This is not a useful understanding.
- Any comfort we might get from such thoughts concerning our inevitable deaths is entirely spurious.
Further Remarks:
- The quotation from John Updike appeared in The Week, but it seems to be a popular one. See Updike: Our Selves Die Every Day.
- "Updike (John) - Self-Consciousness" has little to do with self-consciousness other than the book’s title.
References
- Relevant Works cited above:
- "Updike (John) - Self-Consciousness", 1989, Book, Read = 6%
- For a page of Links9 to this Note, Click here.
- The categorised reading list is rather small; naturally, see also those on Self10 and Consciousness11.
- Works on this topic that I’ve actually read12, include the following:-
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective: What Is The Problem?", 2013
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes", 2003, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The First-Person Perspective", 2000, Write-Up Note13, 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
- "Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness", 1998, Book
- "Garrett (Brian) - The Story of I: Some Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'", 2001, Write-Up Note14, Annotations
- "Garrett (Brian) - Wittgenstein on 'I'", 1998
- "Kriegel (Uriah) - Strange Loops and Self-conscious Marbles", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "Nozick (Robert) - The Identity of the Self: Introduction", 1981
- "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Papineau (David) - Introducing Consciousness", 2000, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Persons and Personal Identity", 1996
- "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
- "Smith (Quentin) - Consciousness - New Philosophical Perspectives: Introduction", 2002
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Introduction", 2014
- "Snowdon (Paul) - The Self and Personal Identity", 2009, Write-Up Note15
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Criticisms of dualism: is substance dualism tenable?", 2000
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Functionalism", 2000
- "Wilkes (Kathleen) - The Coherence of Consciousness", 2003
- A further reading list might start with:-
- General:
- "Allen (Colin) - Animal Consciousness", 1995-2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - First-Person Aspects of Agency", 1978, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - From Consciousness to Self-Consciousness", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - From the Rudimentary to the Robust Stage of the First-Person Perspective", 2013
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - On Making and Attributing Demonstrative Reference", 1981, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and the Natural Order", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The First-Person Perspective: A Test For Naturalism", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bayne (Tim) - Self-Consciousness And The Unity Of Consciousness", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Bealer (George) - Self-Consciousness", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.) - Self-Consciousness", 2003
- "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Nonconceptual self-consciousness and cognitive science", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - The Paradox of Self-Consciousness", 2000, Book
- "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - The Sources of Self-consciousness", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words", 2008, Book, Read = 6%
- "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words: Preface", 2008, Read = 122%, Footnote16
- "Cassam (Quassim) - Self and World", 2001, Book
- "Chisholm (Roderick) - The Direct Awareness of the Self", 1976, No Abstract
- "Dretske (Fred) - The Mind's Awareness of Itself", 1999
- "Eilan (Naomi), Marcel (Anthony) & Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Self-Consciousness and the Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach", 1995, No Abstract
- "Elkatip (S.H.) - The Validity of Indexical Arguments", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Evans (Gareth) - Self-Identification", 1982
- "Frank (Manfred) - Non-objectal Subjectivity", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Gallagher (Shaun) - Moral Agency, Self-Consciousness, and Practical Wisdom", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Gallagher (Shaun) - The Moral Significance of Primitive Self-Consciousness: A Response to Bermudez", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Gallagher (Shaun) & Zahavi (Dan) - Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness", 2005-10, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Garrett (Brian) - Bermúdez on Self-Consciousness", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Kriegel (Uriah) - Consciousness And Self-Consciousness", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Self-Knowledge", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Subjects of Experience: Introduction", 1996, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
- "Lycan (William) - Dretske On The Mind's Awareness of Itself", 1999
- "McCullagh (Mark) - Functionalism and self-consciousness", 2000
- "Meijsing (Monica) & Cole (Jonathan) - Self-consciousness and the Body", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Metzinger (Thomas) - The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self", 2009, Book, Read = 1%
- "Neisser (Ulric) - Five Kinds of Self-Knowledge", 1991
- "Nichols (Shaun) & Stich (Stephen) - How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness", 2002, Read = 3%
- "O'Shaughnessy (Brian) - Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge", 2000
- "Petrus (Klaus), Ed. - On Human Persons", 2003, Book, Read = 73%, Footnote17
- "Pollock (John L.) - The Self-Conscious Machine", 1989
- "Puhl (Klaus) - Review of Klaus Petrus's 'On Human Persons'", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Rorty (Richard) - Dennett on Awareness", 1972
- "Rosenthal (David) - Being Conscious Of Ourselves", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Rovane (Carol) - Branching Self-Consciousness", 1990, Internal PDF Link
- "Schechter (Elizabeth) - Self-Consciousness and 'Split' Brains: The Minds’ I (TOC & Chapter 1: The Unity Puzzle)", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Personal Identity: a Materialist Account", 1984, Read = 22%
- "Smith (Joel) - On Knowing Which Thing I Am", 2004
- "Strawson (Galen) - Self, Body, and Experience", 1997
- "Updike (John) - Self-Consciousness", 1989, Book, Read = 6%
- "Van Gulick (Robert) - A Functionalist Plea for Self-Consciousness", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "Vesey (Godfrey N.A.) - Are We Intimately Conscious of What We Call Our Self", 1974, No Abstract
- "Vjecsner (Paul) - Searching for the Heart of Human Nature", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
- Read: No items to list.
- Further Reading: No items to list.
- This is mostly a place-holder18.
In-Page Footnotes:
Footnote 16: Footnote 17:
Table of the Previous 10 Versions of this Note:
Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note
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Summary of Notes Citing This Note
| Baker - Materialism with a Human Face |
Baker - The First-Person Perspective, 2, 3 |
Consciousness |
Existential Passage |
Mind |
| Olson - What Are We? Animals |
Personal Identity and Moral Action. T1 |
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Research - Proposal |
Self |
| Status: Consciousness Studies (2023 - September) |
Taking Persons Seriously |
The Singularity |
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) |
| Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) |
Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion) |
Thesis - Current Stance |
Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.
Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note
| Author |
Title |
Medium |
Extra Links |
Read? |
| Allen (Colin) |
Animal Consciousness |
Paper  |
2 |
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| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
First-Person Aspects of Agency |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
From Consciousness to Self-Consciousness |
Paper  |
2 |
|
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
From the Rudimentary to the Robust Stage of the First-Person Perspective |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective: What Is The Problem? |
Paper  |
2, 3, 4 |
Yes |
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
On Making and Attributing Demonstrative Reference |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
Persons and the Natural Order |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View' |
Paper |
2, 3 |
Yes |
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Yes |
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
The First-Person Perspective |
Paper |
2, 3 |
Yes |
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
The First-Person Perspective: A Test For Naturalism |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Bar-On (Dorit) |
Transparency, Epistemic Impartiality, and Personhood |
Paper |
|
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| Bayne (Tim) |
Self-Consciousness And The Unity Of Consciousness |
Paper |
2, 3, 4 |
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| Bealer (George) |
Fregean Equivocation and Ramsification on Sparse Theories: Response to McCullagh |
Paper |
2, 3 |
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| Bealer (George) |
Self-Consciousness |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.) |
Self-Consciousness |
Paper |
2, 3 |
|
| Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
Aspects of the Self |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
Nonconceptual self-consciousness and cognitive science |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5 |
|
| Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
The Paradox of Self-Consciousness |
Book |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
|
| Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
The Sources of Self-consciousness |
Paper |
2, 3, 4 |
|
| Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
Thinking Without Words: Preface |
Paper |
|
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| Bermudez (Jose Luis), Marcel (Anthony) & Eilan (Naomi), Eds. |
The Body and the Self |
Book |
|
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| Blatti (Stephan) |
Animalism and its Implications |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Blatti (Stephan) |
Animalism Unburdened |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Blumenberg (Hans) |
The Genesis of the Copernican World |
Book |
|
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| Campbell (John) |
Past, Space and Self |
Book |
2, 3 |
|
| Campbell (John) |
The First Person, Embodiment, And The Certainty That One Exists. |
Paper |
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| Campbell (Scott) |
Animals, Babies, and Subjects |
Paper |
2 |
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| Cassam (Quassim) |
Self and World |
Paper |
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| Cassam (Quassim) |
Self and World |
Book |
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| Cassam (Quassim) |
Self and World |
Paper |
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| Cassam (Quassim) |
Self and World |
Book |
|
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| Cassam (Quassim) |
Self and World |
Paper |
|
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| Cassam (Quassim) |
Self and World |
Book |
2, 3, 4 |
|
| Cassam (Quassim) |
The Unity Argument |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) |
On the Very Idea of Criteria for Personhood |
Paper |
|
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| Chopra (Deepak) & Hameroff (Stuart) |
Can science explain the soul? |
Paper |
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| Claxton (Guy) |
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less |
Book |
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| Crick (Francis) |
The Astonishing Hypothesis - The Scientific Search for the Soul |
Book |
|
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| Darwin (Charles) |
The Descent of Man |
Paper |
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| Davis (Lawrence H.) |
Cerebral Hemispheres |
Paper |
|
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| Desmond (Adrian) |
The Ape's Reflexion |
Paper |
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| Donnelly (John) |
Death and Ivan Ilych |
Paper |
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| Dusing (Klaus) |
Constitution and Structure of Self-Identity: Kant's Theory of Apperception and Hegel's Criticism |
Paper |
|
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| Eccles (John) |
Evolution of the Brain, Creation of the Self |
Book |
2 |
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| Eccles (John) |
The Self and Its Brain |
Paper |
|
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| Frank (Manfred) |
Non-objectal Subjectivity |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5 |
|
| Gallagher (Shaun) |
Moral Agency, Self-Consciousness, and Practical Wisdom |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Gallagher (Shaun) |
The Moral Significance of Primitive Self-Consciousness: A Response to Bermudez |
Paper |
2, 3, 4 |
|
| Gallagher (Shaun) & Marcel (Anthony) |
The Self in Contextualized Action |
Paper |
|
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| Gallagher (Shaun) & Zahavi (Dan) |
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
|
| Garrett (Brian) |
Bermúdez on Self-Consciousness |
Paper |
2, 3 |
|
| Garrett (Brian) |
Personal Identity and Self-consciousness |
Book |
2, 3, 4 |
Yes |
| Garrett (Brian) |
The Story of I: Some Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies' |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Garrett (Brian) |
Wittgenstein on 'I' |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Gennaro (Rocco) |
Leibniz on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness |
Paper |
|
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| Godelek (Kamuran) |
Review of Thomas Metzinger's 'The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self' |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn) |
Philosophical Psychopathology |
Book |
2 |
|
| Gray (Jeffrey) |
Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem |
Book |
|
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| Harre (Rom) |
Persons and Selves |
Paper |
2 |
|
| Hayward (Jeremy) |
A rDzogs-chen Buddhist Interpretation of the Sense of Self |
Paper |
|
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| Hershenov (David) |
Death, Persons, and Sparse Ontologies: The Problem of Too Many Dying Thinkers |
Paper |
|
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| Hershenov (David) |
Personal Identity |
Paper |
|
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| Hick (John) |
An Irenaean Theodicy: Response to Critiques |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds. |
The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul |
Book |
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| Ikaheimo (Heikki) & Laitinen (Arto) |
Dimensions of Personhood |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Jeannerod (Marc) |
The Cognitive Way to Action |
Paper |
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| Kazez (Jean) |
The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Kinsbourne (Marcel) |
Integrated field theory of consciousness |
Paper |
|
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| Kolak (Daniel) |
I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics |
Book |
2 |
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| Kolak (Daniel) |
Room for a View: On the Metaphysical Subject of Personal Identity |
Paper |
|
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| Korsgaard (Christine) |
Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity |
Paper |
2, 3 |
|
| Kriegel (Uriah) |
Consciousness And Self-Consciousness |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
|
| Lavelle (Suilin) |
Minds, Brains and Computers |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Lockwood (Michael) |
When Does a Life Begin? |
Paper |
2, 3 |
Yes |
| Madden (Rory) |
Could a Brain in a Vat Self-Refer? |
Paper |
|
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| McCullagh (Mark) |
Functionalism and self-consciousness |
Paper |
|
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| McDowell (John) |
Avoiding the Myth of the Given |
Paper |
|
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| Meijsing (Monica) & Cole (Jonathan) |
Self-consciousness and the Body |
Paper |
|
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| Metzinger (Thomas) |
Being No One: Tools II |
Paper |
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| Metzinger (Thomas) |
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self |
Book |
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| Metzinger (Thomas) |
The Representational Deep Structure of the Phenomenal First-Person Perspective |
Paper |
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| Noonan (Harold) |
Objects and Identity: An Examination of Relative Identity and its Consequences |
Book |
|
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| Nozick (Robert) |
The Identity of the Self: Introduction |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Olson (Eric) |
Persistence |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Olson (Eric) |
Psychology and Personal Identity |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? Animals |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Page (Edgar) |
Neonates, Persons and the Right to Life |
Paper |
2 |
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| Papineau (David) |
Theories of Consciousness |
Paper |
|
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| Persson (Ingmar) |
Our Identity and the Separability of Person and Organism |
Paper |
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| Petrus (Klaus), Ed. |
On Human Persons |
Book |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
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| Priest (Stephen) |
Theories of the Mind |
Book |
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| Puhl (Klaus) |
Review of Klaus Petrus's 'On Human Persons' |
Paper |
|
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| Radden (Jennifer) |
Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality |
Book |
|
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| Rosenthal (David) |
Being Conscious Of Ourselves |
Paper |
2 |
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| Schechter (Elizabeth) |
Self-Consciousness and 'Split' Brains: The Minds’ I (TOC & Chapter 1: The Unity Puzzle) |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
|
| Shoemaker (David) |
Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Shoemaker (Sydney) |
Personal Identity: a Materialist Account |
Paper |
|
|
| Shoemaker (Sydney) |
Persons and Personal Identity |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Simons (Peter) |
Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Smith (C.U.M.) |
The Brain - Towards an Understanding |
Book |
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| Smith (Joel) |
On Knowing Which Thing I Am |
Paper |
2, 3, 4 |
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| Smith (Quentin) |
Consciousness - New Philosophical Perspectives: Introduction |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Snowdon (Paul) |
Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Introduction |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Snowdon (Paul) |
The Self and Personal Identity |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Sperry (Roger W.) |
Some Effects of Disconnecting the Cerebral Hemispheres |
Paper |
2 |
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| Strawson (Galen) |
Self, Body, and Experience |
Paper |
2, 3 |
|
| Sturma (Dieter) |
Person as Subject |
Paper |
|
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| Thomas (Janice L.) |
Criticisms of dualism: is substance dualism tenable? |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Thomas (Janice L.) |
Functionalism |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?) |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion) |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Consciousness |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Current Position |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Mind |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Personal Identity |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Self |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Taking Persons Seriously |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Tooley (Michael) |
Abortion and Infanticide |
Book |
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| Updike (John) |
Self-Consciousness |
Book |
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| Valberg (J.J.) |
Solipsism |
Paper |
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| Wallace (Robert M.) |
The Genesis of the Copernican World: Translator's Introduction |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Wiles (Maurice) |
Providence and Public History |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Wilkerson (T.E.) |
Two Images of Man |
Paper |
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| Wilkes (Kathleen) |
The Coherence of Consciousness |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Williams (Bernard) |
Personal Identity and Individuation |
Paper |
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| Williams (Christopher) |
Same and Self |
Paper |
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References & Reading List
| Author |
Title |
Medium |
Source |
Read? |
| Allen (Colin) |
Animal Consciousness |
Paper - Cited |
Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 1995-2010 |
4% |
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
19% |
| Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective: What Is The Problem? |
Paper - Cited |
Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Introduction |
Yes |
| Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
The Paradox of Self-Consciousness |
Book - Cited |
Bermudez (Jose Luis) - The Paradox of Self-Consciousness |
No |
| Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
Thinking Without Words |
Book - Cited |
Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words |
6% |
| Bermudez (Jose Luis), Marcel (Anthony) & Eilan (Naomi), Eds. |
The Body and the Self |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Bermudez (Jose Luis), Marcel (Anthony) & Eilan (Naomi), Eds. - The Body and the Self |
4% |
| Cassam (Quassim) |
Self and World |
Book - Cited |
Cassam (Quassim) - Self and World |
0% |
| Cornwell (John) |
Consciousness and Human Identity: Preface |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Cornwell - Consciousness and Human Identity |
No |
| Cornwell (John), Ed. |
Consciousness and Human Identity |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Cornwell (John), Ed. - Consciousness and Human Identity |
No |
| Dennett (Daniel) |
Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Dennett (Daniel) - Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds |
1% |
| Dennett (Daniel) |
Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Dennett - Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds |
No |
| Eilan (Naomi), Marcel (Anthony) & Bermudez (Jose Luis) |
Self-Consciousness and the Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self |
No |
| Evans (Gareth) |
Self-Identification |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Evans - Evans - The Varieties of Reference, 1982, Chapter 7 |
No |
| Evans (Gareth), McDowell (John), Ed. |
The Varieties of Reference |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Evans (Gareth), McDowell (John), Ed. - The Varieties of Reference |
No |
| Gallagher (Shaun) & Shear (Jonathan), Eds. |
Models of the Self |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Gallagher (Shaun) & Shear (Jonathan), Eds. - Models of the Self |
2% |
| Garrett (Brian) |
Personal Identity and Self-consciousness |
Book - Cited |
Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness |
Yes |
| Glover (Jonathan) |
I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Glover (Jonathan) - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity |
6% |
| Glover (Jonathan) |
Persons and Self-Consciousness |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Glover - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity, Chapter 5 |
No |
| Kolak (Daniel) & Martin (Raymond), Eds. |
Self and Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Kolak (Daniel) & Martin (Raymond), Eds. - Self and Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues |
No |
| Kriegel (Uriah) |
Strange Loops and Self-conscious Marbles |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Times Literary Supplement, 2007 |
Yes |
| Laycock (Stephen) |
Consciousness It/Self |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Gallagher & Shear - Models of the Self |
No |
| Metzinger (Thomas) |
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self |
Book - Cited |
Metzinger (Thomas) - The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self |
1% |
| Midgley (Mary) |
Putting Ourselves Together Again |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Cornwell - Consciousness and Human Identity |
No |
| Neisser (Ulric) |
Five Kinds of Self-Knowledge |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Kolak & Martin - Self and Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues |
No |
| Nida-Rumelin (Martine) |
Chisholm on Personal Identity and the Attribution of Experiences |
Paper - By Subtopic |
The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, Hahn, Lewis E, 1997. 565-585 |
No |
| Petrus (Klaus), Ed. |
On Human Persons |
Book - Cited |
Petrus (Klaus), Ed. - On Human Persons |
73% |
| Pollock (John L.) |
How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Pollock (John L.) - How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon |
4% |
| Pollock (John L.) |
The Self-Conscious Machine |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Pollock - How to Build a Person, Chapter 1 |
No |
| Rorty (Richard) |
Dennett on Awareness |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Philosophical Studies 1972, 153-162 |
No |
| Shoemaker (Sydney) |
How is Self-Knowledge Possible? |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Shoemaker - Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity, Chapter 6 |
No |
| Shoemaker (Sydney) |
Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity |
2% |
| Shoemaker (Sydney) |
The Self and the Contents of Consciousness |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Shoemaker - Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity, Chapter 3 |
No |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Self-Consciousness |
Paper - By Subtopic |
|
Yes |
| Updike (John) |
Self-Consciousness |
Book - Cited |
Updike (John) - Self-Consciousness |
6% |
| Updike (John) |
Self-Consciousness |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Updike (John) - Self-Consciousness |
26% |
| Vesey (Godfrey N.A.) |
Are We Intimately Conscious of What We Call Our Self |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Vesey - Personal Identity: A Philosophical Analysis, Chapter 2 |
No |
| Vesey (Godfrey N.A.) |
Personal Identity: A Philosophical Analysis |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Vesey (Godfrey N.A.) - Personal Identity: A Philosophical Analysis |
1% |
| Vjecsner (Paul) |
Searching for the Heart of Human Nature |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Science, 04/06/2001, Vol. 292 Issue 5514, p52, 1/4p; |
No |
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