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24/04/2018 00:12:58 2953 Coincidence
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25/08/2009 14:34:05 495 Coincidence
26/11/2007 23:25:26 84 Coincident Objects
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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity) Constitution View Contingent Identity Dion and Theon
Fine - A Counter-Example to Locke's Thesis Logic of Identity Olson Perdurantism Plug Note Apologia
Problem of the Many Ship of Theseus Statue and the Clay Thinking Animal Argument Tibbles the Cat
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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution Constitution Corpses Counting Persons Dion and Theon
Fission Mereology, 2 PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4 Replication Supervenience
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?) Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2 Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)
Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion) Thesis - Current Stance Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6  

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Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
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Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2 Yes
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Todman (Theo) Thesis - Constitution Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Corpses Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
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References & Reading List

Author Title Medium Source Read?
Balaguer (Mark) A Semantic Solution to the Problem of Coincident Objects Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract IP - LEM Seminar, 08 October 2019 11%
Bennett (Karen) Spatio-Temporal Coincidence and the Grounding Problem Paper - Cited Low Quality Abstract Philosophical Studies, Vol. 118.3: April 2004, pp. 339-371 15%
Bowin (John) Chrysippus' Puzzle About Identity Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24: 239-251 (2003) 33%
Burke (Michael) Copper Statues and Pieces of Copper: A Challenge to the Standard Account Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Analysis 52, 1992, pp. 12-17 Yes
Burke (Michael) Dion and Theon: An Essentialist Solution to an Ancient Puzzle Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Journal of Philosophy 91, No. 3 (March 1994), 129-139 Yes
Burke (Michael) Dion, Theon, and the many-thinkers problem Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Analysis 64, July 2004, Vol. Issue 3, p242-250, 9p No
Burke (Michael) Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place: A Novel Account of the Relations Amongst Objects, Sorts, Sortals, and Persistence Conditions Paper - Cited High Quality Abstract Philosophy and Phenomenological Research liv (1994), pp. 591–624 Yes
Carter (William) Dion's Left Foot (and the Price of Burkean Economy) Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75, No. 2 (Jun. 1997), 371-379 Yes
Caws (Peter) On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time Paper - Cited Low Quality Abstract American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan., 1965), pp. 63-66 Yes
Chandler (Hugh S.) Theseus' Clothes-Pin Paper - Cited High Quality Abstract Analysis, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Mar., 1984), pp. 55-58 Yes
Chappell (Vere) Locke on the Ontology of Matter, Living Things and Persons Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophical Studies 60 (1990), pp. 19-32 No
Denkel (Arda) Theon’s Tale: Does a Cambridge Change Result in a Substantial Change? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Analysis 55.3, July 1995, pp. 166–170 No
Divers (John) Coincidence and Form Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 82 (2008), pp. 119-137 No
Doepke (Frederick) Spatially Coinciding Objects Paper - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader Yes
Doyle (Robert O.) Coinciding Objects Paper - By Subtopic Personal Website 33%
Elder (Crawford) Essential Properties and Coinciding Objects Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 58.2, June 1998, pp. 317-331 No
Fine (Kit) A Counter-Example To Locke's Thesis Paper - Cited High Quality Abstract Monist, Jul2000, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p357, 5p Yes
Fine (Kit) Coincidence and Form Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 82 (2008), pp. 101-118 No
Gallois (Andre) Identity Strict and Loose Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Gallois - Occasions of Identity, 1998, Chapter 8 No
Gallois (Andre) Occasions of Identity : a Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Gallois (Andre) - Occasions of Identity : a Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness No
Gallois (Andre) Occasions of Identity : a Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) Low Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied No
Gallois (Andre) The Puzzle Cases Paper - Cited Low Quality Abstract Gallois - Occasions of Identity, 1998, Chapter 1 No
Garrett (Brian) Noonan, 'Best Candidate' Theories and the Ship of Theseus Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Analysis 45, 1985, 212-215 No
Gilmore (Cody) In Defence of Spatially Related Universals Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81: 420-428 (September 2003) No
Gilmore (Cody) Time Travel, Coinciding Objects and Persistence Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Zimmerman (Dean), Ed. - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 3 No
Grayling (Anthony), Ed. Philosophy 1 - A Guide Through the Subject Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Grayling (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy 1 - A Guide Through the Subject 28%
Hawley (Katherine) How Things Persist Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Hawley (Katherine) - How Things Persist 5%
Hawley (Katherine) Sheer Coincidence? Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Hawley - How Things Persist, Chapter 5 No
Hawthorne (John) Motion and Plenitude Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Hawthorne - Metaphysical Essays, 2006 No
Heller (Mark) Temporal Overlap Is Not Coincidence Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Monist, Jul2000, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p362, 19p No
Heller (Mark) The best candidate approach to diachronic identity Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 65, Number 4, December 1987, pp. 434-451(18) No
Hershenov (David) Can There Be Spatially Coincident Entities of the Same Kind? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Mar. 2003, 33.1, pp. 1-22 No
Hughes (Christopher) An Incredible Coincidence? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Mind, 106, No. 424, Oct., 1997, pp. 769-772 No
Hughes (Christopher) Same-kind coincidence and the ship of Theseus Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Mind, 106, Number 421, January 1997, pp. 53-69(17) No
Johansson (Ingvar) Identity Puzzles and Supervenient Identities Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Metaphysica 7.1 (2006), pp. 7-34 No
Kaufman (Dan) Locke on Individuation and the Corpuscular Basis of Kinds Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research No
Levey (Samuel) Coincidence and Principles of Composition Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Analysis 57.1, 1997, 1-10 No
Lowe (E.J.) Coinciding Objects: In Defence of the ‘Standard Account’ Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Analysis 55.3, July 1995, pp. 171-178 11%
Lowe (E.J.) Material Coincidence and the Cinematographic Fallacy: A Response to Olson Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Philosophical Quarterly; Jul2002, Vol. 52 Issue 208, p369-372, 4p No
Lowe (E.J.) The Paradox of the 1,001 Cats Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Analysis, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), pp. 27-30 No
Mackie (Penelope) Coincidence and Identity Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophy 83 supplement 62 (2008), 151-176 (special issue on Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics) 10%
McGrath (Matthew) Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Zimmerman (Dean), Ed. - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 3 No
Moyer (Mark) Defending Coincidence: An Explanation of a Sort Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Unpublished draft, 2003 3%
Moyer (Mark) Does Four-Dimensionalism Explain Coincidence? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 2009 (vol. 87, issue 3, pp. 479-488) 11%
Moyer (Mark) Statues and Lumps: A Strange Coincidence? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Synthese 148 (1/2006), 401-423 5%
Oderberg (David) Coincidence Under a Sortal Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophical Review, Apr96, Vol. 105 Issue 2, p145, 27p; No
Olson (Eric) Composition and Coincidence Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 77 (1996), pp. 374-403 No
Olson (Eric) Dion's Foot Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Journal of Philosophy 94, No. 5 (May, 1997), 260-265 Yes
Olson (Eric) Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem Paper - Cited Low Quality Abstract Philosophical Quarterly 51, No. 204, July 2001 Yes
Olson (Eric) Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson) Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson) 16%
Olson (Eric) Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson) Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) Low Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 16%
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Paul (L.A.) Coincidence as Overlap Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Nous 40:4 (2006) 623–659 No
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Rea (Michael), Ed. Material Constitution - A Reader Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) High Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 41%
Sainsbury (Mark) Philosophical Logic: Identity Paper - By Subtopic Grayling - Philosophy 1 - A Guide Through the Subject, 1998, Chapter 2 (part) Yes
Salmon (Nathan) Principles of Cross-World Identification Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Salmon - Reference and Essence, 2005, Appendix 1 No
Salmon (Nathan) Reference and Essence Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Salmon (Nathan) - Reference and Essence 4%
Sedley (David) The Stoic criterion of identity Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Phronesis, 27 (1982), 255–75 11%
Shagrir (Oron) Global Supervenience, Coincident Entities and Anti-Individualism Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Philosophical Studies, Vol. 109, No. 2 (May, 2002), pp. 171-196 No
Shoemaker (Sydney) Realization, Micro-Realization, and Coincidence Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Jul., 2003), pp. 1-23 No
Shoemaker (Sydney) Self, Body, and Coincidence Paper - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society, Vol. 73: 1999, 287-306 Yes
Shorter (J.M.) On Coinciding in Space and Time Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophy, Vol. 52, No. 202 (Oct., 1977), pp. 399-408 No
Sidelle (Alan) A Sweater Unraveled: Following One Thread of Thought for Avoiding Coincident Entities Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Nous, Dec. 1998; 32(4): 423-448 No
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Sider (Ted) The Four-Dimensional Picture Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Chapter 1 Yes
Simons (Peter) Coincidence of Things of a Kind Paper - By Subtopic Mind, Vol. 94, No. 373, Jan., 1985, pp. 70-75 No
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Simons (Peter) Superposition, Composition and Coincidence Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Simons - Parts: A Study in Ontology, 1987, Chapter 6 No
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Coincidence Paper - By Subtopic   Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean) Metaphysics: The Big Questions Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean) - Metaphysics: The Big Questions 17%
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Zimmerman (Dean) Coincident Objects: Could a ‘Stuff Ontology’ Help? Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Analysis 57.1, Jan 1997, p19, 9p No
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