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Criteria of Identity

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Artifacts Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity) Change Kinds Life
Lowe - Locke on Identity Matter Modality Note Links Explanation Organisms
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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - Personal Identity Over Time Biological Criterion Brain Criterion Persistence Criteria PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Snowdon - The Self and Personal Identity Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5 Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion) Thesis - Current Stance
Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4 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.) Objects and Identity: Foreward Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Armstrong (David) The Argument of Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. 2 (A Theory of Universals) Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Ayers (Michael R.) Individuals Without Sortals Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Baillie (James) Problems in Personal Identity: Introduction Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Baker (Lynne Rudder) Personal Identity Over Time Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Baur (Michael) Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Yes
Bourgeois (Warren) Contemporary Philosophers' Views on Persons: Parfit: The Oxford Buddhist Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Brennan (Andrew) Memories, Bodies, and Survival Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Cartwright (Helen Morris) On Two Arguments for the Indeterminacy of Personal Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Catterson (Troy) Changing the subject: on the subject of subjectivity Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
deClercq (Raphael) A criterion of diachronic identity based on Locke's Principle Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Duncan (Matt) A Renewed Challenge to Anti-Criterialism Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Gale (Richard) On Some Pernicious Thought-Experiments Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Garbacz (Pawel) What is a level of a criterion of identity? Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3  
Gasser (Georg) Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction Paper High Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Geach (Peter) God and the Soul (Analytical ToC) Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Griffin (Nicholas) Criteria Of Identity Paper Low Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds. A Companion to the Philosophy of Language Book Low Quality Abstract    
Hamlyn (D.W.) Persons and Personal Identity Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Hawley (Katherine) Principles of Composition and Criteria of Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Hirsch (Eli) Minds and Bodies: Introduction Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Hirsch (Eli) Physical Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Hirsch (Eli) The Persistence of Matter Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Hirsch (Eli) The Persistence of Objects: Introduction Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5 Yes
Ismael (Jenann) Me, Again Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Jubien (Michael) The Myth of Identity Conditions Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Lombard (Lawrence B.) Events Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Lowe (E.J.) Impredicative Identity Criteria and Davidson's Criterion of Event Identity Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Lowe (E.J.) Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  
Lowe (E.J.) Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms Book Medium Quality Abstract    
Lowe (E.J.) Locke: Identity Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Lowe (E.J.) More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms Book Medium Quality Abstract    
Lowe (E.J.) More Kinds of Being: Preface Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Lowe (E.J.) Objects and Criteria of Identity Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12  
Lowe (E.J.) Objects and Identity Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Lowe (E.J.) What Is a Criterion Of Identity? Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  
MacBride (Fraser) Identity and Modality: Introduction Paper Low Quality Abstract    
MacBride (Fraser) The Julius Caesar Objection: More Problematic than Ever Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  
MacBride (Fraser), Ed. Identity and Modality Book Medium Quality Abstract    
Meiland (Jack W.) A Two-Dimensional Passage Model of Time for Time Travel Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Merricks (Trenton) How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Noonan (Harold) Absolute and Relative Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  
Noonan (Harold) Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Noonan (Harold) Identity: Introduction Paper Low Quality Abstract 2  
Noonan (Harold) Moderate Monism, Sortal Concepts, and Relative Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Noonan (Harold) Objects and Identity: An Examination of Relative Identity and its Consequences Book Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Noonan (Harold) Objects and Identity: Introduction Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12  
Noonan (Harold) Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Yes
Noonan (Harold) Substance, Identity and Time Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Oderberg (David) Continuity as the Criterion of Identity Over Time: The Classical Theory of Continuity Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Olson (Eric) Human People Or Human Animals Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Olson (Eric) Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity? Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5 Yes
Olson (Eric) Persistence Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Olson (Eric) Review of Lowe's 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Olson (Eric) The Human Animal: Introduction Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Parfit (Derek) Why Our Identity is Not What Matters (Excerpts) Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Penelhum (Terence) Personal Identity, Memory, and Survival Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Penelhum (Terence) The Importance of Self-Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3  
Perry (John) Relative Identity and Relative Number Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Rea (Michael), Ed. Material Constitution - A Reader Book High Quality Abstract 2  
Schechtman (Marya) The Same and the Same: Two Views of Psychological Continuity Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Shoemaker (David) Personal Identity and Ethics - Introduction Paper High Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Shoemaker (David) Personal Identity and Immortality Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Shoemaker (David) Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Sider (Ted) Recent Work: Identity Over Time Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Sider (Ted) & Zimmerman (Dean) Persistence - Bibliography Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Simons (Peter) Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Yes
Slors (Marc) Personal Identity, Memory, and Circularity: An Alternative for Q-Memory Paper High Quality Abstract    
Snowdon (Paul) Persons, Animals, and Ourselves Paper Low Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Snowdon (Paul) The Self and Personal Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Thomas (Janice L.) Psychological continuity Paper High Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Thomas (Janice L.) The bodily criterion Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Biological Criterion Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Brain Criterion Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Current Position Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Persistence Criteria Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Personal Identity Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4 Yes
Wiggins (David) Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity Book Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3  
Williams (Christopher) Myself Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Williamson (Timothy) Criteria of Identity and the Axiom Of Choice Paper Low Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Williamson (Timothy) Identity and Discrimination Book Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Wilson (Jack) Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Wilson (Jack) Generation and Corruption Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Zimmerman (Dean) Criteria of Identity and the 'Identity Mystics' Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Zimmerman (Dean) Personal Identity and the Survival of Death Paper Medium Quality Abstract    



References & Reading List

Author Title Medium Source Read?
Anscombe (G.E.M.) Objects and Identity: Foreward Paper - Cited High Quality Abstract Noonan - Objects and Identity, 1980, Foreward No
Baur (Michael) Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe Paper - Cited High Quality Abstract The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Sep., 1992), pp. 166-168 Yes
Gale (Richard) On Some Pernicious Thought-Experiments Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy, Ed. Tamara Horowitz & Gerald J. Massey, 1991 Yes
Garbacz (Pawel) What is a level of a criterion of identity? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Metaphysica 3.2 (2002), pp. 113-124 No
Gasser (Georg) Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? 2010 Yes
Gasser (Georg), Ed. Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 96%
Griffin (Nicholas) Criteria Of Identity Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Griffin - Relative Identity, 1977, Chapter 4 No
Griffin (Nicholas) Relative Identity Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Griffin (Nicholas) - Relative Identity No
Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds. A Companion to the Philosophy of Language Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds. - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language 4%
Hawley (Katherine) Principles of Composition and Criteria of Identity Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84.4 (December 2006), 481-93 Yes
Hirsch (Eli) The Concept of Identity Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied Yes
Hirsch (Eli) The Persistence of Objects: Introduction Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Hirsch - The Concept of Identity, 1982, Introduction to Part 1 Yes
Horowitz (Tamara) & Massey (Gerald J.) Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Low Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 3%
Hudson (Hud) A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person 2%
Hudson (Hud) The Criterion of Personal Identity Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, 2001, Chapter 4, pp. 113-144 No
Lovibond (Sabina) & Williams (S.G.) Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) High Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 10%
Lowe (E.J.) Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Lowe (E.J.) - Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms No
Lowe (E.J.) Objects and Criteria of Identity Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Hale & Wright - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language 61%
Lowe (E.J.) Sortal Terms and Criteria of Identity Paper - By Subtopic Lowe - Kinds of Being, 1989, Chapter 2 No
Lowe (E.J.) What Is a Criterion Of Identity? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophical Quarterly 39.154, Jan. 1989, pp. 1-21 11%
Noonan (Harold) Absolute and Relative Identity Paper - Referencing Medium Quality Abstract Lovibond & Williams - Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins 17%
Noonan (Harold) Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Noonan - Objects and Identity, 1980, Chapter 7 11%
Noonan (Harold) Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity Concluded Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Noonan - Objects and Identity, 1980, Chapter 9 17%
Noonan (Harold) Objects and Identity: An Examination of Relative Identity and its Consequences Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Noonan (Harold) - Objects and Identity: An Examination of Relative Identity and its Consequences 10%
Noonan (Harold) Objects and Identity: An Examination of Relative Identity and its Consequences Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 10%
Oderberg (David) Continuity as the Criterion of Identity Over Time: The Classical Theory of Continuity Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Oderberg - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time, 1993, Chapter 1 Yes
Oderberg (David) The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Oderberg (David) - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time 3%
Olson (Eric) Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity? Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72, Number 2, June 1994, pp. 173-186(14). Yes
Olson (Eric) Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson) Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Low Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 16%
Shoemaker (David) Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Low Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied Yes
Shoemaker (David) Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, 2009, Chapter 2 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Criteria of Identity Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Williamson (Timothy) Criteria of Identity and the Axiom Of Choice Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Journal of Philosophy 83.7, July 1986, pp. 380-394 No
Wollheim (Richard) Are the criteria of identity that hold for a work of art in the different arts aesthetically relevant Paper - By Subtopic Ratio 20, June 1978, pp. 29-48 No
Zimmerman (Dean) Criteria of Identity and the 'Identity Mystics' Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 48, No. 2/3, Analytical Ontology (1998), pp. 281-301 No



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