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Persistence Criteria

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

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. There’s a distinction between persistence criteria and persistence conditions, both of which topics will – eventually – be covered here.
  2. Maybe the former term (“criteria”) focuses on epistemology (how we know that something has persisted) and the latter (“conditions”) on metaphysics (what it takes for something to persist).
  3. I suspect David Shoemaker – in "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality" – of confusing the two (despite his explicit acknowledgement of the distinction) in his rejection of the soul criterion.
  4. In brief, the persistence conditions for an object of a particular kind² are the necessary and sufficient conditions for it persist³, that is, to continue in existence⁴.
  5. With respect to our⁵ persistence criteria, David Shoemaker considers the following possibilities:-
     1. Soul Criterion⁶
     2. Body Criterion⁷
     3. Memory Criterion⁸
     4. Brain⁹-based Memory Criterion
     5. Psychological Criterion¹⁰
     6. Biological Criterion¹¹
  6. In this regard,
     1. The first four feature in "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality".
     2. The final two in "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern".
  7. In "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Self-Regarding Ethics - Alternative Approaches" Shoemaker considers two other alternatives:-
     7. Narrative Identity¹², and
     8. Identity Doesn’t Matter¹³.
  8. Most of my work on the topic of persistence conditions and criteria will be undertaken under the guise of pursuing the topics above.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. This Note will also overlap to some extent with those on:-
     → Criteria of Identity¹⁴, and
     → Persistence¹⁵.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009, Read
  2. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Self-Regarding Ethics - Alternative Approaches", 2009, Read
  3. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009, Read
• For a Page of Links¹⁶ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on – or tangentially related to – this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁷ include the following items, which will also feature in the Note on Persistence¹⁸:-
  • General:
    1. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on 'Masses of Matter'", 1991, Annotations
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'", 2001, Write-Up Note¹⁹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Ontological Status of Persons", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Very Idea of Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note²⁰, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism Unburdened", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Coliva (Annalisa) - Review of Gasser & Stefan, Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?", 2013, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
    10. "Dainton (Barry) - Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "DeGrazia (David) - Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply", 2002, Write-Up Note²¹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₂
    12. "DeGrazia (David) - Human Identity and Bioethics: Introduction", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction", 2010, Annotations
    14. "Hawley (Katherine) - How Things Persist: Introduction", 2001
    15. "Hershenov (David) - Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Mackie (David) - Personal Identity and Dead People", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Madden (Rory) - Human Persistence", 2016, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Olson (Eric) - Are People Animals?", 1999
    20. "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
    21. "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
    22. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", 1999
    23. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? The Question", 2007, Write-Up Note²³, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    25. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
    26. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Self-Regarding Ethics - Alternative Approaches", 2009
    27. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
    28. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self, Body, and Coincidence", 1999, Annotations
    29. "Sider (Ted) - Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Snowdon (Paul) - Personal Identity and Brain Transplants", 1991, Annotations
    31. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Plantinga’s Replacement Argument", 2007, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    32. "Wiggins (David) - On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time", 1968, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Wilson (Jack) - Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities", 1999, Annotations
    34. "Wilson (Jack) - Personal Identity Naturalized: Our Bodies, Our Selves", 1999, Annotations
    35. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
• Because of the overlap with so many other Notes, this Note has no reading list of its own, though it seems to have a small categorised reading list. Consequently, I’ve just listed those items I’ve actually read. Others may be added when I get further into the topic.
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Chandler (Hugh S.) - Defending Continuants", 1970, 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-holder²⁴.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 22:

• See Skeleton Note.

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Persistence Criteria	Logic of Identity

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker - Persons and Bodies - Precis	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution	Biological View	Bodily Continuity
Brain	Brandom - Toward a Normative Pragmatics (Introduction)	Criteria of Identity	DeGrazia - Are We Essentially Persons?	Existence
Kinds	Memory	Narrative Identity	Note Links Explanation	Olson - What Are We? The Question
Parfit	Persistence	Plug Note Apologia	Psychological View	Souls
What are We?	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Abbreviations	Androids, 2, 3	Animalism	Animalism - Objections	Animals
Artifacts	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution
Biological View	Bodily Continuity, 2	Body Criterion	Buddhism	Connectedness vs Continuity
Corpses, 2, 3	Criteria of Identity, 2, 3	Cyborgs	Death	DeGrazia - Are We Essentially Persons?
Evolution	Fiction	Holes & Smiles	Immortality	Matter
Metaphysics	Mind	Noonan - Persons and Bodies - Response	Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2	Olson - What Are We? The Question, 2
Ontology	Organisms	Persistence, 2	Person	Physicalism
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3	Psychology	Statue and the Clay	Teletransportation	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5
Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection), 2, 3, 4, 5
Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34	Universals	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?
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on 'Masses of Matter'	Paper	2	Yes
Bailey (Andrew M.)	The Elimination Argument	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Animalism vs. Constitutionalism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Beyond the Cartesian Self	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective: What Is The Problem?	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Ontological Status of Persons	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Constitution	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper	2	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper	2	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism Unburdened	Paper		Yes
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		Yes
Coliva (Annalisa)	Review of Gasser & Stefan, Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?	Paper		Yes
Conn (Christopher Hughes)	Locke on Essence and Identity	Book
Corcoran (Kevin)	Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Dualism, Materialism and the Problem of Post Mortem Survival	Paper	2
Corcoran (Kevin)	Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	Book	2, 3
Dainton (Barry)	Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'	Paper	2	Yes
Dainton (Barry)	The Phenomenal Self	Book
DeGrazia (David)	Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply	Paper		Yes
DeGrazia (David)	Human Identity and Bioethics: Introduction	Paper	2	Yes
Francescotti (Robert)	Psychological Continuity and the Necessity of Identity	Paper
Gasser (Georg)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Hawley (Katherine)	How Things Persist: Introduction	Paper	2	Yes
Heller (Mark)	Conventional Objects	Paper	2
Heller (Mark)	Preface: The Ontology of Physical Objects - Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Are There Too Many Hylomorphic Individuals Thinking about this Life and the Next?	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Death, Persons, and Sparse Ontologies: The Problem of Too Many Dying Thinkers	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Hershenov (David)	Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism and Moral Status	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Olson's Embryo Problem	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Organisms and their Bodies: Response to LaPorte	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Hershenov (David)	Who Doesn't Have a Problem of Too Many Thinkers?	Paper
Hudson (Hud)	I am Not an Animal!	Paper	2
Johnston (Mark)	Remnant Persons: Animalism's Undoing	Paper
Korman (Daniel Z.)	Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness	Paper
Larkin (William S.)	Persons, Animals, and Bodies	Paper
Lockwood (Michael)	When Does a Life Begin?	Paper		Yes
Lowe (E.J.)	Identity, Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self	Paper
Mackie (David)	Personal Identity and Dead People	Paper	2	Yes
Madden (Rory)	Human Persistence	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Arguments Against Animalism: Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	The Thinking Animal Problem and Personal Pronoun Revisionism	Paper	2, 3
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Are People Animals?	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Composition and Coincidence	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Persistence	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of Lynne Baker's 'Persons And Bodies'	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Nature of People	Paper
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper	2	Yes
Robinson (Denis)	Constitution and the Debate between Animalism and Psychological Views	Paper
Rosenkrantz (Gary)	Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons	Paper		Yes
Schechtman (Marya)	Personality and Persistence: The Many Faces of Personal Survival	Paper
Schechtman (Marya)	The Malleability of Identity	Paper
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Persons, Animals, and Identity	Paper
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Realization, Micro-Realization, and Coincidence	Paper
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Self, Body, and Coincidence	Paper		Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Thinking Animals Without Animalism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Sider (Ted)	Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies	Paper		Yes
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Personal Identity and Brain Transplants	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	The Self and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Abbreviations	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Androids	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism - Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Artifacts	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Biological View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bodily Continuity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Body Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Buddhism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Connectedness vs Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Corpses	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Criteria of Identity	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cyborgs	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Evolution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fiction	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Holes & Smiles	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Immortality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Matter	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mind	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ontology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Organisms	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistence	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Person	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Physicalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Statue and the Clay	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Teletransportation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Universals	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Plantinga’s Replacement Argument	Paper		Yes
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Constitution Question	Paper
Wiggins (David)	On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Wilson (Jack)	Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Wilson (Jack)	Personal Identity Naturalized: Our Bodies, Our Selves	Paper		Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited	Paper	2, 3	Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	26%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on 'Masses of Matter'	Paper - Cited	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 18, pp. 207-215	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Paper - Cited	Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, 2001, e-Symposium on "Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View"	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Ontological Status of Persons	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65, September 2002, pp. 370-388	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Constitution	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 2, pp. 27-58	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper - Cited	Distinguished Faculty Lecture, December 5, 2005	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder), Etc.	E-Symposium on 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper - Cited	OU Website (now deleted)	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism Unburdened	Paper - Cited	OU Website (now deleted)	Yes
Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David)	The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies: Vol. 170, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 465-500	Yes
Chandler (Hugh S.)	Defending Continuants	Paper - Cited	Nous, Vol. 4, No. 3, Sep., 1970, pp. 279-283	No
Coliva (Annalisa)	Review of Gasser & Stefan, Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?	Paper - Cited	Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Dainton (Barry)	Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'	Paper - Cited	Mind 107/427 (July 1998), pp. 679-682	Yes
Forbes (Graeme)	Is There a Problem About Persistence?	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	11%
Garver (Newton)	Criterion of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, 1971., 799-783	No
Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds.	A Companion to the Philosophy of Language	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds. - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language	4%
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	30%
Johnston (Mark)	Is There a Problem About Persistence?	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	8%
Lowe (E.J.)	Entity, Identity and Unity	Paper - By Subtopic	Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 48, No. 2/3, Analytical Ontology (1998), pp. 191-208	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Objects and Criteria of Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Hale & Wright - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language	61%
Lowe (E.J.)	What Is a Criterion Of Identity?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly 39.154, Jan. 1989, pp. 1-21	11%
MacDonald (Graham)	Perception & Identity - Essays Presented to A J Ayer with His Replies	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	MacDonald (Graham) - Perception & Identity - Essays Presented to A J Ayer with His Replies	1%
Mackenzie (P.T.)	Personal Identity and the Imagination	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy - 1983, 161-174	No
Morris (Herbert)	Persons and Punishment	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, 52.4 (Oct. 1968), 475-501	No
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	73%
Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg)	Mind in Action - Essays in the Philosophy of Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg) - Mind in Action - Essays in the Philosophy of Mind	2%
Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg)	The Transformation of Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Rorty (Amelie) - Mind in Action - Essays in the Philosophy of Mind	17%
Sainsbury (Mark), Ed.	Mind - 107/427 (July 1998)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	2%
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Immortality	Paper - Cited	Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, 2009, Chapter 1	Yes
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Self-Regarding Ethics - Alternative Approaches	Paper - Cited	Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, 2009, Chapter 3	Yes
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern	Paper - Cited	Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, 2009, Chapter 2	Yes
Steinhart (Eric)	Indiscernible Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphilosophy, 33, Number 3, April 2002, pp. 300-320(21).	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistence Criteria	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Another Time, Another Place, Another Person	Paper - By Subtopic	MacDonald - Perception & Identity - Essays Presented to A J Ayer with His Replies, 1979	No
Williamson (Timothy)	Criteria of Identity and the Axiom Of Choice	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 83.7, July 1986, pp. 380-394	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Criteria of Identity and the 'Identity Mystics'	Paper - By Subtopic	Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 48, No. 2/3, Analytical Ontology (1998), pp. 281-301	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Properties, Minds, and Bodies: An Examination of Sydney Shoemaker's Metaphysics	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 78, No. 3, May, 2009, pp. 673-738	No

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