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Personal Identity

What Matters

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

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. We need further discussion of Parfit²’s claims that we can have what matters to us in survival³ without the need for identity. That is, if the individual who follows on from us experiences good things or fulfils our projects, then provided that individual is sufficiently close to us, or those projects are sufficiently close to ours, we will have what matters to us even if that individual is not – strictly-speaking – us.
  2. The situation envisaged is where the logic of identity⁴ – maybe as a result of fission⁵ – means that it is logically impossible that we should survive⁶ some vicissitude. In those circumstances it’s not mere quibbles over identity that matter to us, but those benefits that are usually concomitant with identity.
  3. It seems obvious that our survival⁷ matters to us, or at least some of the benefits of surviving matter to us. If we don’t survive, we can have none of those benefits of survival. Such questions come up in trying to explain why death⁸ is bad for the one who dies.
  4. However, the question has been raised that some people (eg. those contemplating suicide) don’t want to persist⁹, so persistence doesn’t matter to them. I think it does – persistence matters, though maybe persisting doesn’t. What I mean is that whether they persist or not matters to persons, who can anticipate – in a good or bad light, accurately or not – the future. If things get too bad (or are perceived to be that way), it may be important to them that they don’t persist. In the normal case, it’s important that they do. Either way, persistence matters to them.
  5. Where I differ from (an interpretation of) Parfit is that it’s not just my projects that matter to me. If I had a worthwhile project and I died before completing it – but someone else completed it for me₁₀ – then – provided it was done competently – that would be a good thing. If this happened to all my outstanding projects, even those I’d not started, that would be better. But it would not be as good as – or even the same thing as – my completing them myself. Sometimes the journey is as good as the arrival, and even where it isn’t it is often an extra good. But if I don’t arrive, I would miss out.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. Doubtless the source of the current debates on this topic, if they are still raging, is (relevant sections of) "Parfit (Derek) - Reasons and Persons".
  2. Parfit’s last major work sounds as though it ought to be relevant, and I’ve purchased the four volumes, including the volume of interactions, but it has more to do with ethics than personal identity, and I suspect life will be too short for me to engage with it:-
     1. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One",
     2. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two",
     3. "Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity", and
     4. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Three"
        

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One", 2011, Book, Read = 3%
  2. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Three", 2017, Book, Read = 1%
  3. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two", 2011, Book, Read = 1%
  4. "Parfit (Derek) - Reasons and Persons", 1987, Book, Read
  5. "Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity", 2017, Book, Read = 3%
• For a Page of Links¹¹ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹², include the following:-
  • Death & Ethics:
    1. "Kagan (Shelly) - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?", 2007, External Link
  • General:
    1. "Cassam (Quassim) - Parfit on Persons", 1992, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Lewis (David) - Survival and Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Martin (Raymond) - Self Concern: Preface", 1998, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Noonan (Harold) - An Initial Survey", 2003, Annotations
    5. "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem", 2015, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", 1999
    7. "Parfit (Derek) - Lewis, Perry, and What Matters", 1976
    8. "Parfit (Derek) - Nagel's Brain", 1986
    9. "Parfit (Derek) - Reasons and Persons", 1987, Book, Footnote₁₃
    10. "Parfit (Derek) - The Closest Continuer Schema", 1984
    11. "Parfit (Derek) - Why Our Identity is Not What Matters", 1986
    12. "Parfit (Derek) - Why Our Identity is Not What Matters (Excerpts)", 1986
    13. "Rey (Georges) - Survival", 1976
    14. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Self-Regarding Ethics - Alternative Approaches", 2009
    15. "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
    16. "Tobia (Kevin Patrick) - Personal Identity and the Phineas Gage Effect", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Unger (Peter) - Fission and the Focus of One's Life", 1992
    18. "Unger (Peter) - The Psychological Approach To Our Survival", 1992
    19. "Unger (Peter) - What Matters In Our Survival: Distinctions, Compromises and Limits", 1992
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Agar (Nicholas) - Functionalism and Personal Identity", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    2. "Baillie (James) - Methodology Matters", 1993
    3. "Brink (David) - Prudence and Authenticity: Intrapersonal Conflicts of Value", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    4. "Brueckner (Anthony) - Parfit On What Matters In Survival", 1993, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    5. "Butkovic (Ana) - Does Identity Really Matter? Parfit vs Lewis", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    6. "Campbell (Scott) - Could Your Life Have Been Different?", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    7. "Campbell (Scott) - Is Causation Necessary for What Matters in Survival?", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    8. "Campbell (Scott) - Is Connectedness Necessary to What Matters in Survival?", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Campbell (Scott) - Rapid Psychological Change", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    10. "Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) - Reductionism about Persons; And What Matters", 1998, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    11. "Cherry (Christopher) - Mine and Mattering", 1986, Internal PDF Link
    12. "DeGrazia (David) - Identity, Killing, and the Boundaries of Our Existence", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Dennett (Daniel) - Our Minds and Other Minds", 1996
    14. "Duncan-Jones (Austin) - Man's Mortality", 1968, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Frankfurt (Harry) - Reply to Velleman ('Identification and Identity')", 2002, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Lewis, 'Survival and Identity'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    17. "Gendler (Tamar Szabo) - Personal Identity and Thought Experiments", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    18. "Gillett (Grant) - Brain Bisection and Personal Identity", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    19. "Gustafsson (Johan E.) - Is Psychology What Matters in Survival?", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    20. "Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) - Personal identity and Purgatory", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    21. "Johnston (Mark) - Reasons and Reductionism", 1992, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    22. "Martin (Raymond) - Identity, Transformation, and What Matters in Survival", 1990
    23. "Martin (Raymond) - Memory, Connecting and What Matters In Survival", 1987
    24. "Martin (Raymond) - What really matters", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    25. "Martin (Raymond), Barresi (John) & Giovannelli (Alessandro) - Fission Examples in 18th and Early 19th century Personal Identity Debate", 1998
    26. "McCall (Catherine) - Parfit's Theory of Personal Identity", 1990
    27. "Measor (Nicholas) - On What Matters in Survival", 1980, Internal PDF Link
    28. "Monti (Niccolo) - How Can Identity Matter in Survival?", 2017, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    29. "Olson (Eric) - Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    30. "Olson (Eric) - Self: Personal Identity", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    31. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One", 2011, Book, Read = 3%
    32. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Three", 2017, Book, Read = 1%
    33. "Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two", 2011, Book, Read = 1%
    34. "Parfit (Derek) - The Unimportance of Identity", 1995, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    35. "Rachels (Stuart) & Alter (Torin) - Nothing Matters in Survival", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    36. "Roberts (Melinda) - Lewis's Theory Of Personal Identity", 1983, Internal PDF Link
    37. "Sider (Ted) - All the World's a Stage", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    38. "Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity", 2017, Book, Read = 3%
    39. "Stone (Jim) - Parfit and the Buddha: Why There Are No People", 1988, Internal PDF Link
    40. "Stone (Jim) - Why there are still no people", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    41. "Vasiliou (Iakovos) - Reality, What Matters, and The Matrix", 2005, No Abstract
    42. "Velleman (David) - Identification and Identity", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    43. "Wolf (Susan) - Self-Interest and Interest in Selves", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%

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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-holder¹⁴.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 10:

1. Like Mozart’s Requiem (Wikipedia: Requiem (Mozart)) or "Wittgenstein (Ludwig) - Philosophical Investigations".

Footnote 13:

• Restrict a close reading to Part 3 (Personal Identity).

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Table of the Previous 9 Versions of this Note:

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19/02/2021 00:23:02	5268	What Matters
01/10/2020 00:24:29	4114	What Matters
12/05/2018 14:16:48	6255	What Matters
11/03/2018 20:19:41	3877	What Matters
18/12/2010 19:58:05	838	What Matters
26/11/2007 23:25:26	833	What Matters
12/08/2007 10:17:46	80	What Matters

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	What Matters	Parfit

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Death	Fission	Logic of Identity	Note Links Explanation
Parfit	Persistence	Plug Note Apologia	Survival	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Animals	Baker - The Importance Of Being a Person, 2, 3	Body	Brain Criterion	Brain Death
Connectedness vs Continuity	Existential Passage	First-Person Perspective, 2	Fission	Forensic Property, 2
Future Great Pain Test	Human Beings	Kurtz - Persistence (Introduction)	Locke	Memory
Mind	Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2	Olson - What Are We? The Question	Parfit	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5
Psychological Continuity	Psychological View	Psychology	Reduplication Objections	Survival, 2, 3
Teletransportation, 2	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 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
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?
Agar (Nicholas)	Functionalism and Personal Identity	Paper	2
Baillie (James)	Methodology Matters	Paper
Baillie (James)	Problems in Personal Identity: In Conclusion	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Importance Of Being a Person	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Belzer (Marvin)	Notes on Relation R	Paper
Berglund (Stefan)	Human and Personal Identity: Summary & Bibliography	Paper
Blatti (Stephan)	Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self', by Raymond Martin and John Barresi	Paper	2	Yes
Botros (Sophie)	Truth, Time and History - A Philosophical Inquiry with Dr Sophie Botros	Paper		Yes
Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David)	The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?	Paper		Yes
Briggs (Rachael) & Nolan (Daniel)	Utility Monsters for the Fission Age	Paper
Brueckner (Anthony)	Parfit On What Matters In Survival	Paper
Butkovic (Ana)	Does Identity Really Matter? Parfit vs Lewis	Paper
Campbell (Scott)	Could Your Life Have Been Different?	Paper	2, 3
Campbell (Scott)	Is Causation Necessary for What Matters in Survival?	Paper	2, 3
Campbell (Scott)	Is Connectedness Necessary to What Matters in Survival?	Paper	2, 3, 4
Campbell (Scott)	Rapid Psychological Change	Paper
Cassam (Quassim)	Parfit on Persons	Paper		Yes
Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace)	Reductionism about Persons; And What Matters	Paper
Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality	Paper		Yes
Dainton (Barry)	Minds and Mental Integration	Paper
Dainton (Barry)	Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue	Paper		Yes
DeGrazia (David)	Identity, Killing, and the Boundaries of Our Existence	Paper
Dennett (Daniel)	Our Minds and Other Minds	Paper
Duncan-Jones (Austin)	Man's Mortality	Paper
Funkhouser (Eric)	Notes on Lewis, 'Survival and Identity'	Paper
Garrett (Brian)	Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Personal Identity and Self-consciousness	Book		Yes
Gendler (Tamar Szabo)	Personal Identity and Thought Experiments	Paper
Gillett (Grant)	Brain Bisection and Personal Identity	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Animals, Persons and Bioethics	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.)	Personal identity and Purgatory	Paper
Johnston (Mark)	Reasons and Reductionism	Paper
Kagan (Shelly)	What matters (continued); The nature of death, Part I	Paper		Yes
Kaufman (Sharon)	Neither person nor cadaver	Paper		Yes
Kingma (Elselijn)	Were You Part of Your Mother?	Paper		Yes
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper		Yes
Lewis (David)	Survival and Identity	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Liao (S. Matthew)	The Organism View Defended	Paper	2	Yes
Lowenthal ( David)	Material Preservation and Its Alternatives	Paper		Yes
Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric)	Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands	Paper		Yes
Martin (Raymond)	Memory, Connecting and What Matters In Survival	Paper
Martin (Raymond)	Questions	Paper		Yes
Martin (Raymond)	Self Concern: Preface	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Martin (Raymond)	Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to what Matters in Survival	Book	2, 3, 4	Yes
Martin (Raymond)	What really matters	Paper
Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John), Eds.	Personal Identity	Book
Martin (Raymond), Barresi (John) & Giovannelli (Alessandro)	Fission Examples in 18th and Early 19th century Personal Identity Debate	Paper	2
McCall (Catherine)	Parfit's Theory of Personal Identity	Paper
Measor (Nicholas)	On What Matters in Survival	Paper	2
Noonan (Harold)	An Initial Survey	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Self: Personal Identity	Paper
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper		Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Lewis, Perry, and What Matters	Paper	2	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Nagel's Brain	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One	Book	2
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Three	Book
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two	Book	2
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two - Part 6: Normativity	Paper	2
Parfit (Derek)	The Closest Continuer Schema	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	The Unimportance of Identity	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	We Are Not Human Beings	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters	Paper	2	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters (Excerpts)	Paper		Yes
Perry (John), Ed.	Personal Identity	Book		Yes
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book
Pink (Thomas)	Scepticism about Second-order Agency	Paper
Puhl (Klaus)	Review of Klaus Petrus's 'On Human Persons'	Paper
Rey (Georges)	Survival	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Roberts (Melinda)	Lewis's Theory Of Personal Identity	Paper	2
Robinson (John)	Personal Identity and Survival	Paper
Schechtman (Marya)	Personality and Persistence: The Many Faces of Personal Survival	Paper	2
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Ethics - Introduction	Paper		Yes
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Immortality	Paper	2	Yes
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Self-Regarding Ethics - Alternative Approaches	Paper		Yes
Sider (Ted)	All the World's a Stage	Paper
Singer (Peter), Ed.	Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity	Book
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper		Yes
Stone (Jim)	Parfit and the Buddha: Why There Are No People	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Stone (Jim)	Why there are still no people	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Thomas (Janice L.)	Functionalism	Paper		Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Book		Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Psychological continuity	Paper	2	Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Tobia (Kevin Patrick)	Personal Identity and the Phineas Gage Effect	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Body	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Connectedness vs Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - First-Person Perspective	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fission	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Forensic Property	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Future Great Pain Test	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Locke	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Memory	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mind	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Parfit	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
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reduplication Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Survival	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Teletransportation	Paper	2	Yes
Unger (Peter)	Fission and the Focus of One's Life	Paper		Yes
Unger (Peter)	Identity, Consciousness and Value	Book	2	Yes
Unger (Peter)	Precis of 'Identity, Consciousness and Value'	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Unger (Peter)	The Psychological Approach To Our Survival	Paper		Yes
Unger (Peter)	What Matters In Our Survival: Distinctions, Compromises and Limits	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Velleman (David)	Identification and Identity	Paper
Wilkinson (Dominic) & Doolabh (Keyur)	Which lives matter most?	Paper		Yes
Wolf (Susan)	Self-Interest and Interest in Selves	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Agar (Nicholas)	Functionalism and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Nous, Mar2003, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p52-70, 19p;	6%
Agar (Nicholas)	Functionalism and Personal Identity	Paper - Referencing	Nous, Mar2003, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p52-70, 19p;	6%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Importance Of Being a Person	Paper - Referencing	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 6, pp. 147-163	Yes
Botros (Sophie)	Truth, Time and History - A Philosophical Inquiry with Dr Sophie Botros	Paper - Referencing	YouTube Video, 6 Nov 2018, prepared by Bloomsbury Academic Publishing	Yes
Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David)	The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?	Paper - Referencing	Philosophical Studies: Vol. 170, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 465-500	Yes
Brueckner (Anthony)	Parfit On What Matters In Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 70, 1993, pp. 1-22	6%
Campbell (Stephen) & Nyholm (Sven)	Anti-Meaning and Why It Matters	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2015) pp. 694-711	7%
Dennett (Daniel)	Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why	Paper - By Subtopic	Dennett - Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds	No
Dennett (Daniel)	Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Dennett (Daniel) - Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds	1%
Garrett (Brian)	Parfit and 'What Matters'	Paper - By Subtopic	Garrett - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness, 1998, Chapter 6	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Personal Identity and Self-consciousness	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness	Yes
Grau (Christopher)	Philosophers Explore 'The Matrix'	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Grau (Christopher) - Philosophers Explore 'The Matrix'	8%
Gustafsson (Johan E.)	Is Psychology What Matters in Survival?	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021, VOL. 99, No. 3, 504–516	8%
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	30%
Kagan (Shelly)	Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Kagan (Shelly) - Death	Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	Death	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?	Paper - Cited	Open Yale Courses, 2007	Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	What matters (continued); The nature of death, Part I	Paper - By Subtopic	Open Yale Courses, 2007	Yes
Kingma (Elselijn)	Were You Part of Your Mother?	Paper - Referencing	Mind, Volume 128, Issue 511, July 2019, Pages 609–646	Yes
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
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper - Referencing	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Yes
Liao (S. Matthew)	The Organism View Defended	Paper - Referencing	The Monist, Vol. 89, No. 3, Coming into Being and Passing Away (July 2006), pp. 334-350	Yes
Marshall (Richard)	Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	37%
Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric)	Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands	Paper - Referencing	Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	Yes
Martin (Raymond)	Identity, Transformation, and What Matters in Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Kolak & Martin - Self and Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues	No
Martin (Raymond)	Memory, Connecting and What Matters In Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 65.1, March 1987, pp. 82-97	No
Martin (Raymond)	What really matters	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 162, No. 3 (Jun., 2008), pp. 325-340	7%
Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John)	Personal Identity and What Matters In Survival: An Historical Overview	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Barresi - Personal Identity, Introduction	Yes
Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John), Eds.	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John), Eds. - Personal Identity	13%
Monti (Niccolo)	How Can Identity Matter in Survival?	Paper - By Subtopic	University of Bologna - Graduate Paper? 2017/8	7%
Noonan (Harold)	Parfit and What Matters in Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Noonan - Personal Identity, 2003, Chapter 9	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Noonan (Harold) - Personal Identity	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	Paper - Referencing	J. Fonseca and J. Gonçalves, eds., Philosophical Perspectives on the Self, Peter Lang 2015: 21-40	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	16%
Olson (Eric)	Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Argumenta 5, 1 (2019): 21-39	11%
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Introduction	Paper - Referencing	The Human Animal, September 1999, Introduction, pp. 3-7	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Is personal identity what matters?	Paper - By Subtopic	The Ammonius Foundation, December 31, 2007	3%
Parfit (Derek)	Lewis, Perry, and What Matters	Paper - By Subtopic	Rorty (Amelie) - The Identities of Persons, 1976	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One	Book - Cited	Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One	3%
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Three	Book - Cited	Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Three	1%
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two	Book - Cited	Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two	1%
Parfit (Derek)	Reasons and Persons	Book - Cited	Parfit (Derek) - Reasons and Persons	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters	Paper - By Subtopic	Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 245-281(37).	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters (Excerpts)	Paper - By Subtopic	Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, Excerpts	Yes
Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg), Ed.	The Identities of Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg), Ed. - The Identities of Persons	23%
Singer (Peter), Ed.	Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity	Book - Cited	Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity	3%
Thomas (Janice L.)	Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection	Paper - By Subtopic	Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - What Matters	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Unger (Peter)	Identity, Consciousness and Value	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Unger (Peter) - Identity, Consciousness and Value	Yes
Unger (Peter)	What Matters In Our Survival: Distinctions, Compromises and Limits	Paper - By Subtopic	Unger - Identity, Consciousness and Value, Chapter 7	Yes
Vasiliou (Iakovos)	Reality, What Matters, and The Matrix	Paper - By Subtopic	Grau - Philosophers Explore "The Matrix", 2005	No
Wittgenstein (Ludwig)	Philosophical Investigations	Book - Cited	Wittgenstein (Ludwig) - Philosophical Investigations	No

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