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(Text as at 06/06/2019 23:28:19)

• A number of my philosophical Notes are “promissory notes” – topics that I intend to write on, but on which I haven’t got round to writing anything substantive yet.
• Frequently they have only listed the books and papers (if any) I possess on the topic concerned, ideally divided between those I’ve read and those still queuing, with the queue pruned to some degree.
• I’ve decided to add some text – whether by way of motivation, or something more substantive – for all these identified topics related to my Thesis.
• As I want to do this fairly quickly, the text may be confused or show surprising ignorance.
• The reader (if such exists) will have to bear with me, and display the principle of charity while this footnote exists.

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Abortion	Androids	Animal Rights	Animalism	Animalism - Arguments For
Animalism - Objections	Animalists	Animals	Animation	Artifacts
Baker	Biological Criterion	Biological View	Bodily Continuity	Body
Body Criterion	Brain	Brain Criterion	Brain Death	Brain State Transfer
Brain Transplants	Brains in Vats	Buddhism	Bundle Theories	Cartesian Ego
Causality	Cerebrum	Change	Chimera	Christian Materialism
Clinical Observations	Clones	Closest Continuer	Coincidence	Commissurotomy
Computers	Concepts	Connectedness vs Continuity	Consciousness	Constitution
Constitution View	Constitution View - Objections	Contingent Identity	Continuity	Convention
Corpses	Counting Persons	Criteria of Identity	Cyborgs	Death
Degrees of Personhood	Descartes	Dion and Theon	Disembodied Existence	Dracula
Dualism	Duplication	Embryo	Endurantism	Essentialism
Evolution	Exdurantism	Existence	Existential Passage	Explanation
Fetuses	Fiction	First-Person Perspective	Fission	Forensic Property
Free Will	Functionalism	Fusion	Future Great Pain Test	General Surveys
Genetics	Holes & Smiles	Homo Sapiens	Human Animals	Human Beings
Human Persons	Hume	Hybrid Theories	Hylomorphism	I
Immortality	Indeterminate Identity	Individual	Information	Intelligence
Interregnum	Intuition	Ivan Ilych	Kant, 2	Kinds
Language of Thought	Leibniz	Lewis	Life	Life After Death
Locke	Logic of Identity	Makropulos Case	Matter	Memory
Mereology	Metamorphosis	Metaphilosophy	Metaphysics	Methuselah
Mind	Modality	Multiple Personality Disorder	Narrative Identity	Natural Kinds
Naturalism	Near Death Experiences	Nihilism	Non-Human Persons	Numerical Identity
Occasional Identity	Olson	Only 'X' and 'Y' Principle	Ontology	Organisms
Origins	Out of Body Experiences	Parfit	Partial Identity	Perdurantism
Persistence	Persistence Criteria	Persistent Vegetative State	Person	Personality
Personite	Phase Sortals	Physical Continuity	Physicalism	Plants
Pregnancy	Probability	Problem of the Many	Process Metaphysics	Properties
Psychological Continuity	Psychological Continuity - Forward	Psychological Criterion	Psychological View	Psychology
Psychopathology	Quantum Mechanics	Quasi-Memory	Race	Reductionism
Reduplication Objections	Reincarnation	Relative Identity	Religion	Replication
Resurrection	Scattered Objects	Self	Self-Consciousness	Semantics
Ship of Theseus	Siliconisation	Similarity	Simple View	Sleep
Society	Sorites	Sortals	Soul Criterion	Souls
Statue and the Clay	Substance	Supervenience	Survival	Taking Persons Seriously
Temporary Intrinsics	Thinking Animal Argument	Thisness (Haecceity)	Thought	Thought Experiments
Tibbles the Cat	Time	Time Travel	Transhumanism	Transplants
Twinning	Unity of the Person	Universals	Uploading	Vague Identity
Vagueness	Wantons	Website Generator Documentation - Thesis Technology	What are We?	What Matters
Wiggins	Wittgenstein	Zombies	Zygote

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Abortion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Androids	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animal Rights	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism - Arguments For	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism - Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalists	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Artifacts	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Baker	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Biological Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Biological View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bodily Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Body	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Body Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain State Transfer	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Transplants	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brains in Vats	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Buddhism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bundle Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cartesian Ego	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Causality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cerebrum	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Change	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chimera	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Christian Materialism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Clinical Observations	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Clones	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Closest Continuer	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Coincidence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Commissurotomy	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Computers	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Concepts	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Connectedness vs Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View - Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Contingent Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Convention	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Corpses	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Counting Persons	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Criteria of Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cyborgs	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Degrees of Personhood	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Descartes	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dion and Theon	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Disembodied Existence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dracula	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dualism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Duplication	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Embryo	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Endurantism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Essentialism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Evolution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Exdurantism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Existence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Explanation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fetuses	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fiction	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - First-Person Perspective	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fission	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Forensic Property	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Free Will	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Functionalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fusion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Future Great Pain Test	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - General Surveys	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Genetics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Holes & Smiles	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Homo Sapiens	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Animals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Persons	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hume	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hybrid Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hylomorphism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - I	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Immortality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Indeterminate Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Individual	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Information	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Intelligence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Interregnum	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Intuition	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ivan Ilych	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Kinds	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Language of Thought	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Leibniz	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Lewis	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Life	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Life After Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Locke	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Logic of Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Makropulos Case	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mataphilosophy	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Matter	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Memory	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mereology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Metamorphosis	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Methuselah	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mind	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Modality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Multiple Personality Disorder	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Narrative Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Natural Kinds	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Naturalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Near Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Nihilism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Non-Human Persons	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Numerical Idenity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Occasional Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Olson	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Only 'X' and 'Y' Principle	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ontology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Organisms	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Origins	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Out of Body Experiences	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Parfit	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Partial Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Perdurantism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistence Criteria	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistent Vegetative State	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Person	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personite	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Phase Sortals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Physical Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Physicalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Plants	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Pregnancy	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Problem of the Many	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Process Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Properties	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity - Forward	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychopathology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Quantum Mechanics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Quasi-Memory	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Race	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reductionism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reduplication Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reincarnation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Relative Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Religion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Replication	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Resurrection	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Scattered Objects	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Self	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Self-Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Semantics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ship of Theseus	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Siliconisation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Similarity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Simple View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Sleep	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Society	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Sorites	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Sortals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Soul Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Souls	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Statue and the Clay	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Substance	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Supervenience	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Survival	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Taking Persons Seriously	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Temporary Intrinsics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thinking Animal Argument	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thisness (Haecceity)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thought	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thought Experiments	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Tibbles the Cat	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Time	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Time Travel	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Transhumanism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Transplants	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Twinning	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Unity of the Person	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Universals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Uploading	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Vague Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Vagueness	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Wantons	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - What Are We?	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - What Matters	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Wiggins	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Wittgenstein	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Zombies	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Zygote	Paper		Yes
Tolstoy (Leo)	The Death of Ivan Ilyich	Paper		Yes

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