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Personal Identity

Statue and the Clay

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

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. This topic arises in the theory of material constitution² when we are considering whole objects (rather than their parts) that appear to be co-located because they are (or seem to be) of different kinds³, or (seem to) have different persistence conditions⁴.
  2. This issue was exploited by "Gibbard (Allan) - Contingent Identity" in the cause of supposed contingent identity⁵.
  3. Supporters of the Constitution View⁶ of Personal Identity (are sometimes said to) hold that persons⁷ are constituted by their bodies⁸ much as statues are constituted by lumps of clay.
  4. Some – eg. Trenton Merricks – get rid of this whole problem by adopting eliminativism⁹ – there are no such things as statues, only clay arranged statue-wise. See "Merricks (Trenton) - No Statues".

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  Further Remarks:
  1. There’s a large overlap between the reading-lists below, and those for Constitution¹⁰ and the Constitution View¹¹, but I’ve included the lot.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Gibbard (Allan) - Contingent Identity", 1997, Write-Up Note¹², Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read
  2. "Merricks (Trenton) - No Statues", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
• For a page of Links¹³ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁴, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - Were You a Zygote?", 1982, Footnote₁₅
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Embryos and Stem­Cell Research", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'", 2001, Write-Up Note¹⁶, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁷, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Constitution View of Human Persons", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁸, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Very Idea of Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁹, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution", 1999, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Why Constitution is Not Identity", 1997, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Burke (Michael) - Copper Statues and Pieces of Copper: A Challenge to the Standard Account", 1992, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Chandler (Hugh S.) - Theseus' Clothes-Pin", 1984, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Doepke (Frederick) - Spatially Coinciding Objects", 1982
    14. "Gibbard (Allan) - Contingent Identity", 1997, Write-Up Note²⁰, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Johnston (Mark) - Constitution is Not Identity", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Merricks (Trenton) - Objects & Persons: Preface", 2001
    17. "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
    18. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Constitution", 2007, Write-Up Note²¹, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts", 2007, Write-Up Note²², Internal PDF Link
    20. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? What Now?", 2007, Write-Up Note²³, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Sider (Ted) - Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Wiggins (David) - On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time", 1968, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Reply to Jackson, II", 2000, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%, Footnote₂₄
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'Objects and Persons' by Trenton Merricks", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Very Idea of Material Constitution", 1999, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Blatti (Stephan) - A New Argument for Animalism", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
    5. "Blatti (Stephan) - Material Constitution", 2012, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 28%
    6. "Chihara (Charles S.) - The Many Persons Problem", 1994, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Corcoran (Kevin) - The Constitution View", 2006, Read = 13%
    8. "Cowley (Fraser) - The Identity of a Person and His Body", 1971, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Doyle (Robert O.) - The Statue and the Clay", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Elder (Crawford) - Essential Properties and Coinciding Objects", 1998, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Fine (Kit) - Coincidence and Form", 2008, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Frances (Bryan) - Externalism, Physicalism, Statues, and Hunks", 2007, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Francescotti (Robert) - Statues and Their Constituents: Whether Consitution is Identity", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Gallois (Andre) - The Puzzle Cases", 1998
    15. "Hawley (Katherine) - Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity", 2012, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
    16. "Hawley (Katherine) - Persistence and Determination", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 60%
    17. "Heil (John) - Substantial Identity", 2003
    18. "Hershenov (David) - Merrick's Identification of the Person and Organism", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    19. "Johansson (Ingvar) - Identity Puzzles and Supervenient Identities", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Johnston (Mark) - It Necessarily Ain't So", 1996, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Jubien (Michael) - Thinking About Things", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Koslicki (Kathrin) - Towards a Hylomorphic Solution to the Grounding Problem", 2018, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    23. "Lowe (E.J.) - Coinciding Objects: In Defence of the ‘Standard Account’", 1995, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    24. "Lowe (E.J.) - Substantial Change and Spatiotemporal Coincidence", 2002
    25. "Mackie (Penelope) - Coincidence and Identity", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    26. "McGrath (Matthew) - Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence", 2007, Footnote₂₅
    27. "Merricks (Trenton) - Belief and Practice", 2001, Read = 4%
    28. "Merricks (Trenton) - Considerations in Favour of Eliminating Us?", 2001, Read = 6%
    29. "Merricks (Trenton) - Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism", 2001, Read = 5%
    30. "Merricks (Trenton) - Explaining Eliminativism", 2001, Read = 17%
    31. "Merricks (Trenton) - No Statues", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
    32. "Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons", 2001, Book, Read = 7%
    33. "Merricks (Trenton) - Precis of Objects and Persons", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Moyer (Mark) - Does Four-Dimensionalism Explain Coincidence?", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    35. "Moyer (Mark) - Statues and Lumps: A Strange Coincidence?", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    36. "Noonan (Harold) - Relative Identity", 2001, Read = 50%
    37. "Olson (Eric) - Composition and Coincidence", 1996, Internal PDF Link
    38. "Paul (L.A.) - Coincidence as Overlap", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    39. "Perry (John) - The Same F", 1970, Internal PDF Link
    40. "Rea (Michael) - Constitution and Kind Membership", 2000
    41. "Runggaldier (Edmund) - Sortal Continuity of Material Things", 1998, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    42. "Sider (Ted) - Review of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    43. "Stone (Jim) - Counterpart theory and three-dimensionalism: a reply", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    44. "Stone (Jim) - Why counterpart theory and four-dimensionalism are incompatible", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    45. "Stone (Jim) - Why counterpart theory and three-dimensionalism are incompatible", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    46. "Sutton (Catherine S.) - Colocated Objects, Tally-Ho: A Solution to the Grounding Problem", 2012, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    47. "Thomson (Judith Jarvis) - The Statue and the Clay", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
    48. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Composition As Identity", 1994, Internal PDF Link
    49. "Wasserman (Ryan) - Material Constitution", 2009-2013, Internal PDF Link
    50. "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Constitution Question", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
    51. "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Standard Objection to the Standard Account", 2002, 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-holder²⁶.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 15:

• Clay seems to be used in a discussion of fusion.

Footnote 24:

• Propositional attitudes “create” statues and other artifacts.

Footnote 25:

• This looks like an important paper, which rejects the “proofs” of 4D based on the “coincidence” TEs.

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Table of the Previous 6 Versions of this Note:

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Statue and the Clay	Constitution

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker - Persons and Bodies - Precis	Baker - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution
Body	Constitution	Constitution View	Contingent Identity	Gibbard - Contingent Identity
Kinds	Nihilism	Note Links Explanation	Olson - What Are We? Constitution	Olson - What Are We? Temporal Parts
Olson - What Are We? What Now?	Persistence Criteria	Person	Plug Note Apologia	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - Materialism with a Human Face, 2	Baker - Persons in the Material World, 2, 3, 4	Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?	Baker - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution, 2, 3, 4	Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons, 2, 3, 4, 5
Baker - The First-Person Perspective	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Coincidence	Constitution	Contingent Identity
Dion and Theon	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Current Stance
Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3	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?
Anscombe (G.E.M.)	Were You a Zygote?	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on Living Things	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Embryos and Stem­Cell Research	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Reply to Jackson, II	Paper	2
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Objects and Persons' by Trenton Merricks	Paper	2
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The First-Person Perspective	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Constitution	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Material Constitution	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Why Constitution is Not Identity	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Balaguer (Mark)	A Semantic Solution to the Problem of Coincident Objects	Paper	2
Blatti (Stephan)	A New Argument for Animalism	Paper	2
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper		Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Material Constitution	Paper
Botros (Sophie)	Truth, Time and History - A Philosophical Inquiry with Dr Sophie Botros	Paper	2	Yes
Burke (Michael)	Copper Statues and Pieces of Copper: A Challenge to the Standard Account	Paper		Yes
Bynum (Caroline)	Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Acseticism: The Debates of 400 and Their Background	Paper	2
Chandler (Hugh S.)	Theseus' Clothes-Pin	Paper		Yes
Chihara (Charles S.)	The Many Persons Problem	Paper	2, 3
Corcoran (Kevin)	The Constitution View	Paper	2
Cowley (Fraser)	The Identity of a Person and His Body	Paper	2, 3, 4
Crull (Elise)	You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time	Paper		Yes
Doepke (Frederick)	Spatially Coinciding Objects	Paper	2	Yes
Doyle (Robert O.)	N/A	Author
Elder (Crawford)	Essential Properties and Coinciding Objects	Paper	2, 3, 4
Evans (Gareth), McDowell (John), Ed.	The Varieties of Reference	Book	2
Fine (Kit)	Coincidence and Form	Paper
Fine (Kit)	The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Frances (Bryan)	The New Leibniz's Law Arguments for Pluralism	Paper
Francescotti (Robert)	Statues and Their Constituents: Whether Consitution is Identity	Paper
Gallois (Andre)	The Puzzle Cases	Paper
Hawley (Katherine)	Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity	Paper	2
Hawley (Katherine)	Persistence and Determination	Paper	2
Heil (John)	Substantial Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4
Hershenov (David)	Merrick's Identification of the Person and Organism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Hughes (Christopher)	Is a Thing Just the Sum of Its Parts	Paper
Johansson (Ingvar)	Constitution as a Relation within Mathematics	Paper	2, 3
Johansson (Ingvar)	Identity Puzzles and Supervenient Identities	Paper
Johnston (Mark)	Constitution is Not Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	Yes
Jubien (Michael)	The Myth of Identity Conditions	Paper
Jubien (Michael)	Things and Their Parts	Paper
Jubien (Michael)	Thinking About Things	Paper
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper		Yes
Kingma (Elselijn)	Were You Part of Your Mother?	Paper		Yes
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Almost Indiscernible Objects and the Suspect Strategy	Paper
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Towards a Hylomorphic Solution to the Grounding Problem	Paper	2
Lockwood (Michael)	When Does a Life Begin?	Paper		Yes
Lowe (E.J.)	Coinciding Objects: In Defence of the ‘Standard Account’	Paper	2, 3
Lowe (E.J.)	Mereological Extensionality, Supplementation, and Material Constitution	Paper	2, 3, 4
Lowe (E.J.)	More Kinds of Being: Preface	Paper		Yes
Lowe (E.J.)	Substantial Change and Spatiotemporal Coincidence	Paper	2
Mackie (Penelope)	Coincidence and Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Mackie (Penelope)	Coincidence and modal predicates	Paper	2
McGrath (Matthew)	Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence	Paper
Merricks (Trenton)	Belief and Practice	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Merricks (Trenton)	Considerations in Favour of Eliminating Us?	Paper	2, 3, 4
Merricks (Trenton)	Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Merricks (Trenton)	Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism	Paper	2
Merricks (Trenton)	Explaining Eliminativism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Merricks (Trenton)	Mental Causation and Free Will	Paper	2, 3, 4
Merricks (Trenton)	No Statues	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Merricks (Trenton)	Objects & Persons: Preface	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	Objects and Persons	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Merricks (Trenton)	Precis of Objects and Persons	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Merricks (Trenton)	Surviving Eliminativism	Paper
Miller (Kristie)	Immaterial Beings	Paper	2
Moore (Gareth)	Prayer	Paper		Yes
Moyer (Mark)	Does Four-Dimensionalism Explain Coincidence?	Paper
Moyer (Mark)	Statues and Lumps: A Strange Coincidence?	Paper	2
Noonan (Harold)	Moderate Monism and Modality	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Moderate Monism, Sortal Concepts, and Relative Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4
Noonan (Harold)	Relative Identity	Paper	2, 3
Olson (Eric)	Composition and Coincidence	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of Lynne Baker's 'Persons And Bodies'	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper		Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Experiences, subjects, and conceptual schemes	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Paul (L.A.)	Coincidence as Overlap	Paper
Perry (John)	The Same F	Paper
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Pollock (John L.)	What Am I? Virtual Machines and the Mind/Body Problem	Paper
Rea (Michael)	Constitution and Kind Membership	Paper	2
Rea (Michael)	The Problem of Material Constitution	Paper	2
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book	2, 3
Runggaldier (Edmund)	Sortal Continuity of Material Things	Paper
Schwitzgebel (Eric)	N/A	Author	2
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern	Paper	2	Yes
Sider (Ted)	All the World's a Stage	Paper	2, 3
Sider (Ted)	Four-Dimensionalism: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Sider (Ted)	Global Supervenience and Identity Across Times and Worlds	Paper
Sider (Ted)	In Favour of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 2: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence	Paper		Yes
Sider (Ted)	Ontological Realism	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Review of André Gallois, Occasions of Identity	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Review of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Sider (Ted)	The Four-Dimensional Picture	Paper		Yes
Sider (Ted)	Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument	Paper
Snowdon (Paul)	The Self and Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Srinivasan (Amia), LRB	Remembering Derek Parfit	Paper		Yes
Stone (Jim)	Counterpart theory and three-dimensionalism: a reply	Paper	2
Stone (Jim)	Why counterpart theory and four-dimensionalism are incompatible	Paper	2
Stone (Jim)	Why counterpart theory and three-dimensionalism are incompatible	Paper	2, 3
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Colocated Objects, Tally-Ho: A Solution to the Grounding Problem	Paper	2, 3, 4
Thomas (Janice L.)	Davidson's anomalous monism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Plato's Phaedo	Paper	2	Yes
Thomson (Judith Jarvis)	The Statue and the Clay	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Coincidence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Contingent Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dion and Theon	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Composition As Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Material Beings: Preface	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Précis of Material Beings	Paper		Yes
Wasserman (Ryan)	Material Constitution	Paper	2, 3
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Constitution Question	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Standard Objection to the Standard Account	Paper	2, 3, 4
Wiggins (David)	On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Anscombe (G.E.M.)	Were You a Zygote?	Paper - Cited	Anscombe (G.E.M) - Human Life, Action and Ethics	Yes
Anscombe (G.E.M.), Geach (Mary), Gormally (Luke), Eds.	Human Life, Action and Ethics	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	10%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	26%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on Living Things	Paper - Referencing	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 19, pp. 216-228	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Embryos and Stem­Cell Research	Paper - Cited	UMass Magazine, Spring 2006	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper - Referencing	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Chapter 10	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper - Referencing	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1, pp. 3-88	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)	Reply to Jackson, II	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Explorations, 3 (2000): 196-8	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper - Referencing	Mind, 117:1120-1122, 2008	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 7, pp. 167-190	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 4, 91-117	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, July, 1999	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 1999, Vol. XXIII Issue 1, p144, 22p	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)	A New Argument for Animalism	Paper - Referencing	Analysis Vol 72, Number 4, October 2012, pp. 685–690	33%
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper - By Subtopic	OU Website (now deleted)	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Bob Barnard and Neil Manson (Continuum, 2012), 149-69	28%
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
Burke (Michael)	Copper Statues and Pieces of Copper: A Challenge to the Standard Account	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 52, 1992, pp. 12-17	Yes
Bynum (Caroline)	Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336	4%
Bynum (Caroline)	Resurrection, Hylomorphism, and Abundantia: Scholastic Debates in the Thirteenth Century	Paper - By Subtopic	Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336, Chapter 6	No
Chandler (Hugh S.)	Theseus' Clothes-Pin	Paper - Referencing	Analysis, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Mar., 1984), pp. 55-58	Yes
Chihara (Charles S.)	The Many Persons Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 76, 45-49, 1994	No
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed.	Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	99%
Cowley (Fraser)	The Identity of a Person and His Body	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 68, No. 20, Oct. 21, 1971, 678-683	No
Doepke (Frederick)	Spatially Coinciding Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes
Doyle (Robert O.)	The Statue and the Clay	Paper - By Subtopic	Personal Website	No
Elder (Crawford)	Essential Properties and Coinciding Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 58.2, June 1998, pp. 317-331	No
Fine (Kit)	Coincidence and Form	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 82 (2008), pp. 101-118	No
Frances (Bryan)	Externalism, Physicalism, Statues, and Hunks	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 133, No. 2 (Mar., 2007), pp. 199-232	No
Frances (Bryan)	The New Leibniz's Law Arguments for Pluralism	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, Vol. 115, No. 460 (Oct., 2006), pp. 1007-1021	No
Francescotti (Robert)	Statues and Their Constituents: Whether Consitution is Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica 4.2 (2003), pp. 59-78	No
French (Peter) & Wettstein (Howard), Eds.	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol XXIII) - New Directions in Philosophy	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	French (Peter) & Wettstein (Howard), Eds. - Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol XXIII) - New Directions in Philosophy	9%
Gallois (Andre)	Occasions of Identity : a Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gallois (Andre) - Occasions of Identity : a Study in the Metaphysics of Persistence, Change, and Sameness	No
Gallois (Andre)	The Puzzle Cases	Paper - By Subtopic	Gallois - Occasions of Identity, 1998, Chapter 1	No
Gibbard (Allan)	Contingent Identity	Paper - Cited	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes
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%
Hawley (Katherine)	Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	St. Andrews' Website; forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 8, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman	33%
Heil (John)	Substantial Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Heil - From an Ontological Point of View, 2003, Chapter 16	No
Hershenov (David)	Merrick's Identification of the Person and Organism	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy. (Resubmission Requested).	5%
Hughes (Christopher)	Is a Thing Just the Sum of Its Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 86 (1985 - 1986), pp. 213-233	11%
Johnston (Mark)	Constitution is Not Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes
Jubien (Michael)	Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Jubien (Michael) - Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference	No
Jubien (Michael)	Things and Their Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Jubien - Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference, 1993, Chapter 2	No
Jubien (Michael)	Thinking About Things	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 11; Oct2001, p1, 15p	No
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Towards a Hylomorphic Solution to the Grounding Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Volume 82 (Metaphysics) - July 2018, pp. 333-364	4%
Lockwood (Michael)	When Does a Life Begin?	Paper - Referencing	Lockwood - Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine, 1987	Yes
Lockwood (Michael), Ed.	Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	29%
Lowe (E.J.)	Coinciding Objects: In Defence of the ‘Standard Account’	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 55.3, July 1995, pp. 171-178	11%
Merricks (Trenton)	No Statues	Paper - Cited	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 78 (2000): 47-52.	33%
Merricks (Trenton)	No Statues	Paper - Referencing	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 78 (2000): 47-52.	33%
Merricks (Trenton)	Objects and Persons	Book - Cited	Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons	7%
Moyer (Mark)	Defending Coincidence: An Explanation of a Sort	Paper - By Subtopic	Unpublished draft, 2003	3%
Moyer (Mark)	Does Four-Dimensionalism Explain Coincidence?	Paper - By Subtopic	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	Synthese 148 (1/2006), 401-423	5%
Noonan (Harold)	Moderate Monism, Sortal Concepts, and Relative Identity	Paper - Referencing	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 101-130	17%
Noonan (Harold)	Relative Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Hale & Wright - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language	50%
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Metaphysics	8%
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 3 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Experiences, subjects, and conceptual schemes	Paper - Referencing	Philosophical Topics, vol. 26, nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall, 1999), pp. 217-270	20%
Paul (L.A.)	Coincidence as Overlap	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous 40:4 (2006) 623–659	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)	The Same F	Paper - By Subtopic	Perry - Identity, Personal Identity and the Self, 2002, Chapter 1	No
Pollock (John L.)	What Am I? Virtual Machines and the Mind/Body Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Mar., 2008), pp. 237-309	No
Rea (Michael)	Constitution and Kind Membership	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 97: 169-193, 2000	No
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader	41%
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	41%
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	41%
Runggaldier (Edmund)	Sortal Continuity of Material Things	Paper - By Subtopic	Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 48, No. 2/3, Analytical Ontology (1998), pp. 359-369	11%
Shand (John)	Central Issues of Philosophy	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	35%
Sider (Ted)	Review of André Gallois, Occasions of Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (2001): 401–5	33%
Sider (Ted)	Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 99 (2002): 45-48	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Review of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 113, Number 449, January 2004, pp. 195-198(4)	No
Sider (Ted)	Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (2008): 613–24	No
Snowdon (Paul)	The Self and Personal Identity	Paper - Referencing	Shand (John) - Central Issues of Philosophy, Chapter 9	Yes
Stone (Jim)	Counterpart theory and three-dimensionalism: a reply	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 65, October 2005, pp. 325-329(5)	No
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Colocated Objects, Tally-Ho: A Solution to the Grounding Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind 121, no. 483 (July 2012): 703 –730	4%
Thomas (Janice L.)	Davidson's anomalous monism	Paper - By Subtopic	Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Yes
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
Thomson (Judith Jarvis)	The Statue and the Clay	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, 32 (1998), pp. 149–173.	14%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Statue and the Clay	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Wasserman (Ryan)	Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2009-2013	No
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Constitution Question	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, Dec2004, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p693, 18p	67%
Wiggins (David)	On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	Paper - Referencing	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes

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