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Personal Identity

Bodily Continuity

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. Historically, philosophers have been divided into those that hold that our² persistence criteria ³ are fundamentally psychological⁴,⁵ and those that think they are fundamentally physical⁶.
  2. The classic paper that wrestles with this dilemma is "Williams (Bernard) - The Self and the Future".
  3. Bernard Williams is sometimes thought of as an Animalist⁷, possibly because₈ he’s inclined to accept the Bodily Continuity (as against the Psychological Continuity ⁹) approach to Personal Identity. But, this is probably a mistake, because:-
     1. The “Bodily Continuity” view of personal identity is not to be confused with Animalism¹⁰, which requires the Biological View ¹¹. The Bodily Continuity view is consistent with my persisting as a Cyborg¹² or even an Android¹³. See also₁₄ Siliconisation¹⁵ (the gradual replacement of my brain with silicon chips).
     2. Also, the persistence conditions ¹⁶ of bodies¹⁷ differ from those of organisms¹⁸ in general or human animals¹⁹ in particular. Consider the arguments about corpses²⁰, which have different persistence conditions to those of animals, and which gives rise to the “Corpse Problem”, an attempted refutation of animalism ²¹.
  4. Lynne Rudder Baker consistently – and mistakenly, in my opinion – contrasts her Constitution View²² with that of a bodily view, rather than a biological view. She considers that we persons²³ are constituted²⁴ (maybe temporarily) by our bodies²⁵, though her view could be improved somewhat were she to choose organisms as the constituting entity.
  5. Eric Olson distinguishes between organisms and bodies and is doubtful about the existence of the latter₂₆. But he would disagree with Baker even if she claimed that we were constituted by human animals.
  6. Note also, the distinction²⁷ between continuity²⁸ and connectedness. Continuity is critical to the persistence of bodies, but it is doubtful whether connectedness is. You could probably replace all the parts of a body over time, provided this is done gradually enough, and retain the same body (this is certainly true of organisms). However, it is said by some (eg. Parfit²⁹) that a psychology disconnected from, though continuous with, another is not the same person. See his discussion of Methuselah³⁰.
  7. It seems to me that both the biological view and the bodily continuity view would (theoretically, at least) allow for metamorphosis³¹ (provided, in the former case, that the metamorphosis is into another organism). There are, however, sortal³² objections to metamorphosis.

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  Further Remarks
  1. Just what a “body” is, and what the persistence criteria of bodies are, will be discussed in two other Notes:-
     • Body³³, and
     • Body Criterion³⁴
  2. However, I’ve not quite decided how the labour would be best distributed between these three Notes. I have parked the bulk of the reading lists under “Body”.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Williams (Bernard) - The Self and the Future", 1999, Write-Up Note³⁵, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read
• For a page of Links³⁶ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read³⁷, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Beck (Simon) - Back To The Self And The Future", 1998, Annotations
    2. "Edwards (Paul) - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination - Introduction", 2002
    3. "Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging: The Body", 2014
    4. "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Williams, 'The Self and the Future'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Noonan (Harold) - The Self and the Future", 2003, Annotations
    6. "Odegard (Douglas) - Personal and Bodily Identity", 1969, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Thomas (Janice L.) - The bodily criterion", 2000
    8. "Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Introduction", 1967
    9. "Wiles (Maurice) - God's Action in Christ", 1986
    10. "Williams (Bernard) - Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity", 1960, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Williams (Bernard) - The Self and the Future", 1999, Write-Up Note³⁸, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Burke (Michael) - Benardete's Paradox", 1999, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Chisholm (Roderick) - Boundaries", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    3. "Coburn (Robert) - Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity", 1960
    4. "Cooper (David E.) - Memories, Bodies and Persons", 1974, No Abstract
    5. "Daniels (Charles) - Personal Identity", 1969
    6. "Gale (Richard) - A Note on Personal Identity and Bodily Continuity", 1969, No Abstract
    7. "Kolak (Daniel) - Room for a View: On the Metaphysical Subject of Personal Identity", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    8. "Puccetti (Roland) - Brain Transplants and Personal Identity", 1969, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Shorter (J.M.) - More About Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity", 1962, No Abstract
    10. "Shusterman (Richard) - William James, Somatic Introspection, And Care Of The Self", 2005, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Smythe (Thomas W.) - The Identity of Persons and Bodies", 1981, No Abstract
    12. "Torriani (Tristan Guillermo) - Perspectivism and Intersubjective Criteria for Personal Identity: A Defense of Bernard Williams’ Criterion of Bodily Continuity", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    13. "Tye (Michael) - In Defense of the Words 'Human Body'", 1980
    14. "Wiggins (David) - Essentialism, Continuity, and Identity", 1974, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Mr. Chandler", 1969, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link

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• 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:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder³⁹.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 8: According to most interpreters.

Footnote 14:

1. Though the Note on Siliconisation focuses on the replacement of neural organic matter by silicon, the general idea could (more easily, as the technology is already partly there) be extended to the replacement of other body parts.

Footnote 26:

1. This is to get round the “Corpse Problem” noted previously.

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Bodily Continuity	Physical Continuity

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Androids	Animalism	Animalism - Objections	Animalists	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)
Biological View	Body	Body Criterion	Connectedness vs Continuity	Constitution
Constitution View	Continuity	Corpses	Cyborgs	Human Animals
Metamorphosis	Methuselah	Note Links Explanation	Organisms	Parfit
Persistence Criteria	Person	Physical Continuity	Plug Note Apologia	Psychological Continuity
Psychological View	Siliconisation	Sortals	What are We?	Williams - The Self and the Future
Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Abbreviations	Baker - Personal Identity Over Time	Body, 2	Body Criterion	Brain Transplants, 2
Persistence Criteria	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Siliconisation	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper		Yes
Daniels (Charles)	Personal Identity	Paper
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation: A Critical Examination - Introduction	Paper		Yes
Funkhouser (Eric)	Notes on Williams, 'The Self and the Future'	Paper	2	Yes
Gasser (Georg)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Personites, Maximality and Ontological Trash	Paper	2
Kolak (Daniel)	Room for a View: On the Metaphysical Subject of Personal Identity	Paper
McInerney (Peter K.)	Conceptions of Persons and Persons through Time	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Objects and Identity: Introduction	Paper
Odegard (Douglas)	Personal and Bodily Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Ord (Toby)	Implications of fission, fusion and teletransportation to a view of personal identity through psychological continuity	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	The Closest Continuer Schema	Paper		Yes
Parfit (Derek)	The Unimportance of Identity	Paper
Perry (John), Ed.	Personal Identity	Book		Yes
Puccetti (Roland)	Brain Transplants and Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3
Schechtman (Marya)	Reidentification: Conclusion	Paper		Yes
Strawson (Galen)	'Where our responsibility lies': Locke on personal identity	Paper
Thomas (Janice L.)	The bodily criterion	Paper	2	Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Abbreviations	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Body	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Body Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Transplants	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistence Criteria	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Siliconisation	Paper		Yes
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity	Book
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Wiles (Maurice)	God's Action in Christ	Paper		Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Materialism, Dualism, and “Simple” Theories of Personal Identity	Paper

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Atkins (Kim)	Personal Identity and the Importance of One's Own Body: A Response to Derek Parfit	Paper - By Subtopic	International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, 1 October 2000, pp. 329-349(21).	6%
Ayer (A.J.)	Body and Mind	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayer - The Central Questions of Philosophy, 1973	No
Ayer (A.J.)	The Central Questions of Philosophy	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Ayer (A.J.) - The Central Questions of Philosophy	No
Beck (Simon)	Back To The Self And The Future	Paper - Cited	South African Journal of Philosophy, Aug98, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p211, 15p;	Yes
Benson (Ophelia)	This Isn't My Body	Paper - By Subtopic	From "Think" Website / The Philosopher's Magazine, 2005.	Yes
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%
Buckareff (Andrei A.) & Van Wagenen (Joel S.)	Surviving Resurrection	Paper - By Subtopic	International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 67, No. 3 (June 2010), pp. 123-139	7%
Burke (Michael)	Benardete's Paradox	Paper - Cited	Sorites 11, December 1999: 82-85	No
Carter (William)	Our Bodies, Our Selves	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66 No. 3,1988, 308-319	Yes
Carter (William)	'Partist' Resistance to the Many: Review of 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person' by Hud Hudson	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 68, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 713-723	Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	Introspection and Bodily Self-Ascription	Paper - By Subtopic	Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self	No
Chisholm (Roderick)	Boundaries	Paper - By Subtopic	Chisholm - On Metaphysics, 1989, Chapter 8	33%
Chisholm (Roderick)	Boundaries as Dependent Particulars	Paper - By Subtopic	Grazer - Philosophische Studien, Vol. 20, 1983	No
Chisholm (Roderick)	On Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Chisholm (Roderick) - On Metaphysics	10%
Chisholm (Roderick)	Self-Profile (G. Bodies & H. Persons)	Paper - By Subtopic	Bogdan, "Roderick M. Chisholm", Chapter 1 "Self-Profile" by R. Chisholm, Sections G & H	No
Coburn (Robert)	Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 20.5, 1960, pp.117-120	No
Cooper (David E.)	Memories, Bodies and Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy - 49, 1974, 255-263	No
Daniels (Charles)	Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, 6.3, 1969, pp. 226-232	No
Dennett (Daniel)	Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Dennett (Daniel) - Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology	43%
Dennett (Daniel)	Reflections on Dennett's 'Where Am I?'	Paper - By Subtopic	Hofstadter & Dennett - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul	No
Dennett (Daniel)	Where Am I?	Paper - By Subtopic	Dennett - Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Chapter 17, 1978	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation: A Critical Examination	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation: A Critical Examination - Introduction	Paper - Cited	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Introduction	Yes
Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.)	Great Myths of Aging	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	17%
Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.)	Great Myths of Aging: The Body	Paper - Cited	Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging, Chapter 1	Yes
Erlandson (Douglas)	Body Transfer and Disembodiment	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 1980, 37: 13-19	No
Fricker (Miranda) & Hornsby (Jennifer), Eds.	The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Fricker (Miranda) & Hornsby (Jennifer), Eds. - The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy	2%
Funkhouser (Eric)	Metaphysics, Spring 2014	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	94%
Funkhouser (Eric)	Notes on Williams, 'The Self and the Future'	Paper - Cited	Funkhouser (Eric) - Metaphysics, Spring 2014	Yes
Gale (Richard)	A Note on Personal Identity and Bodily Continuity	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 29, 1969, pp. 193-195	No
Gert (Bernard)	Personal Identity and the Body	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialogue 10, 1971, 458-478	No
Glover (Jonathan)	Am I My Body?	Paper - By Subtopic	Glover - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity, Chapter 8	No
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%
Hales (Steven D.), Ed.	Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hales (Steven D.), Ed. - Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings	6%
Harrison (Jonathan)	The Embodiment of Mind or What Use Is Having a Body?	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 74 (1973 - 1974), pp. 35-55	No
Hazelton (W. Dean)	Strawson and Persons and their Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 1976, 30: 137-142	No
Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary)	Souls and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Hoffman & Rosenkrantz - Substance among other categories: Chapter 5, 1994	No
Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds.	The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds. - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul	14%
James (Susan)	Feminism in Philosophy of Mind: The Question of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Fricker & Hornsby - The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, 2000	Yes
Long (Douglas)	The Bodies of Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 71, No. 10 (May 30, 1974), 291-301	Yes
Loose (Jonathan)	Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophia Christi Vol. 14, No. 2 ©2012	Yes
Lowe (E.J.)	Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lowe (E.J.) - Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Persons and Their Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Kinds of Being, 1989, Chapter 7	No
MacBride (Fraser), Ed.	Identity and Modality	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	MacBride (Fraser), Ed. - Identity and Modality	5%
Madell (Geoffrey)	Materialism and the First Person	Paper - By Subtopic	O'Hear - Minds and Persons, 2003	No
Madell (Geoffrey)	Personal Identity and the Mind-Body Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Smythies & Beloff, The Case for dualism, 1989, Chapter 2	No
Mavrodes (George I.)	The Life Everlasting and the Bodily Criterion of Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous 11.1, March 1977, pp. 27-39	Yes
Michaud (Derek)	Review of 'Personal Identity and Resurrection: How do we Survive our Death?' Edited by Georg Gasser	Paper - By Subtopic	The Heythrop Journal Volume 54, Issue 2, March 2013 Pages 330–331	17%
Noonan (Harold)	Personal Identity	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	The Self and the Future	Paper - Cited	Noonan - Personal Identity, 2003, Chapter 10	Yes
Odegard (Douglas)	Personal and Bodily Identity	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Quarterly, 1969, 69-71	Yes
O'Hear (Anthony)	Minds and Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony) - Minds and Persons	No
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Philosophy - 82/319 (January 2007)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy - 82/319 (January 2007)	No
Olson (Eric)	Is there a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	MacBride - Identity and Modality, 2006, Chapter 11	No
Penelhum (Terence)	'Bodily Transfer'	Paper - By Subtopic	Penelhum - Survival and Disembodied Existence, 1970, Chapter 7	No
Penelhum (Terence)	Survival and Disembodied Existence	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Penelhum (Terence) - Survival and Disembodied Existence	No
Perry (John)	Identity, Personal Identity and the Self	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Perry (John) - Identity, Personal Identity and the Self	3%
Perry (John)	Williams on The Self and the Future	Paper - By Subtopic	Perry - Identity, Personal Identity and the Self, 2002, Chapter 6	No
Plantinga (Alvin)	Against Materialism	Paper - By Subtopic	University of Notre Dame website; Faith and Philosophy, 23:1 (January 2006), 3-32.	3%
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.)	Persons and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Pollock - How to Build a Person, Chapter 2	No
Robinson (Howard)	A Dualist Account of Embodiment	Paper - By Subtopic	Smythies & Beloff, The Case for dualism, 1989. Chapter 3	No
Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg), Ed.	The Identities of Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg), Ed. - The Identities of Persons	23%
Shaffer (Jerome)	Persons and Their Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review 75, No. 1 (Jan., 1966), 59-77	Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Embodiment and Behavior	Paper - By Subtopic	Rorty (Amelie) - The Identities of Persons, 1976	Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Personal Identity: a Materialist Account	Paper - By Subtopic	Shoemaker & Swinburne - Personal Identity, 1984, pp. 67-132	22%
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Reply to Swinburne	Paper - By Subtopic	Shoemaker & Swinburne - Personal Identity, 1984, pp. 139-152	No
Shoemaker (Sydney) & Swinburne (Richard)	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Shoemaker (Sydney) & Swinburne (Richard) - Personal Identity	11%
Shorter (J.M.)	More About Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 22, 1962, pp. 79-85	No
Smart (Brian)	How can Persons be Ascribed M-Predicates?	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 1977, 49-66	Yes
Smith (Joel)	Review of 'How the Body Shapes the Mind' By Shaun Gallagher	Paper - By Subtopic	O'Hear - Philosophy - 82/319 (January 2007)	No
Smythe (Thomas W.)	The Identity of Persons and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1981, 85-94	No
Steinhart (Eric)	The Revision Theory of Resurrection	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Mar., 2008), pp. 63-81	6%
Strickland (Lloyd)	The doctrine of 'the resurrection of the same body' in early modern thought	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2 (june 2010), pp. 163-183	6%
Taylor (Richard)	Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Taylor (Richard) - Metaphysics	5%
Taylor (Richard)	Persons and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, 16(1), January 1979, 67-72	No
Taylor (Richard)	Persons and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Taylor (Richard) - Metaphysics, Chapter 2	No
Thomas (Janice L.)	Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	The bodily criterion	Paper - Cited	Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bodily Continuity	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Torriani (Tristan Guillermo)	Perspectivism and Intersubjective Criteria for Personal Identity: A Defense of Bernard Williams’ Criterion of Bodily Continuity	Paper - By Subtopic	Princípios 15 (23):153-190 (2008)	3%
Turner (Geoffrey)	Varieties of Resurrection	Paper - By Subtopic	New Blackfriars, Vol. 56, No. 661 (June 1975), pp. 272-276	17%
Tye (Michael)	In Defense of the Words 'Human Body'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, 38:177-182, 1980.	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	And Yet There Are Not Three Gods But One God	Paper - By Subtopic	Morris (Ed.) Philosophy and the Christian Faith, 1988	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Philosophers and the Words 'Human Body'	Paper - By Subtopic	Peter van Inwagen, Ed, Time and Cause, 1980, 283-299	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	The Possibility of Resurrection	Paper - By Subtopic	The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 9, 1978	56%
Vesey (Godfrey N.A.)	Are Persons Identified Only By Reference to Their Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Vesey - Personal Identity: A Philosophical Analysis, Chapter 6	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%
Wiggins (David)	Essentialism, Continuity, and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 28, No. 3/4, On Logical Semantics (Nov., 1974) (pp. 321-359)	No
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	5%
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Introduction	Paper - Cited	Wiggins - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity, 1967, pp. vii-viii	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Mr. Chandler	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 29.5, 1969, pp.175-176	No
Wiles (Maurice)	God's Action in Christ	Paper - Cited	Wiles, Maurice - God's Action in the World, Chapter 7	Yes
Wiles (Maurice)	God's Action in the World: The Bampton Lectures for 1986	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	49%
Williams (Bernard)	Are Persons Bodies?	Paper - By Subtopic	Williams - Problems of the Self (1970)	Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Williams - Problems of the Self (Analysis XXI, 1960)	Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Problems of the Self	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Williams (Bernard) - Problems of the Self	37%
Williams (Bernard)	Problems of the Self	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	37%
Williams (Bernard)	The Self and the Future	Paper - Cited	Williams - Problems of the Self	Yes

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