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These are the papers on the subject of Personal Identity (and related topics) that I've collected, sorted by Sub-Topic. My intention is to provide abstracts for them all, with jumping off points for further thoughts. However, this might take several lifetimes.


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Atkins (Kim) Personal Identity and the Importance of One's Own Body: A Response to Derek Parfit 2 Abstract
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International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, 1 October 2000, pp. 329-349(21). 21 6%
Ayer (A.J.) Body and Mind 3 More Ayer - The Central Questions of Philosophy, 1973 25  
Bayne (Tim) & Levy (Neil) Amputees By Choice: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Amputation 4 Abstract
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Journal of Applied Philosophy. 2005; 22(1): pp. 75-86(12) 12  
Beck (Simon) Back To The Self And The Future 1 Abstract
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South African Journal of Philosophy, Aug98, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p211, 15p; 15 Yes
Benson (Ophelia) This Isn't My Body 1 Abstract
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From "Think" Website / The Philosopher's Magazine, 2005. 2 Yes
Buckareff (Andrei A.) & Van Wagenen (Joel S.) Surviving Resurrection 1 Abstract
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International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 67, No. 3 (June 2010), pp. 123-139 18 7%
Burke (Michael) Benardete's Paradox 4 Abstract
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Sorites 11, December 1999: 82-85 4  
Carter (William) Our Bodies, Our Selves 1 Abstract
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66 No. 3,1988, 308-319 11 Yes
Carter (William) 'Partist' Resistance to the Many: Review of 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person' by Hud Hudson 1 Abstract
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 68, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 713-723 11 Yes
Cassam (Quassim) Introspection and Bodily Self-Ascription 3 More Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self 26  
Chisholm (Roderick) Boundaries 1 Abstract
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Chisholm - On Metaphysics, 1989, Chapter 8 7 33%
Chisholm (Roderick) Boundaries as Dependent Particulars 3 More Grazer - Philosophische Studien, Vol. 20, 1983 5  
Chisholm (Roderick) Self-Profile (G. Bodies & H. Persons) 3 More Bogdan, "Roderick M. Chisholm", Chapter 1 "Self-Profile" by R. Chisholm, Sections G & H 13  
Ciavatta (David) Hegel on Owning One’s Own Body 4 Abstract
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2005) Vol. XLIII 24  
Coburn (Robert) Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity 3 Abstract
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Analysis 20.5, 1960, pp.117-120 4  
Cole (Jonathan) & Paillard (Jacques) Living Without Touch and Peripheral Information about Body Position and Movement: Studies with Deafferented Subjects 4 More Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self 22  
Cooper (David E.) Memories, Bodies and Persons 3 More Philosophy - 49, 1974, 255-263 9  
Daniels (Charles) Personal Identity 2 Abstract
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American Philosophical Quarterly, 6.3, 1969, pp. 226-232 7  
Dennett (Daniel) Reflections on Dennett's 'Where Am I?' 1 Abstract
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Hofstadter & Dennett - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul 2  
Dennett (Daniel) Where Am I? 1 Abstract
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Dennett - Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Chapter 17, 1978 14 Yes
Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) Great Myths of Aging: The Body 1 Abstract
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Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging, Chapter 1 31 Yes
Erlandson (Douglas) Body Transfer and Disembodiment 2 More Philosophical Studies 1980, 37: 13-19 7  
Gale (Richard) A Note on Personal Identity and Bodily Continuity 3 More Analysis 29, 1969, pp. 193-195 3  
Gallagher (Shaun) Body Schema and Intentionality 4 Abstract
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Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self 20  
Gert (Bernard) Personal Identity and the Body 2 Abstract
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Dialogue 10, 1971, 458-478 21  
Glover (Jonathan) Am I My Body? 1 Abstract
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Glover - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity, Chapter 8 5  
Harrison (Jonathan) The Embodiment of Mind or What Use Is Having a Body? 3 Abstract
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 74 (1973 - 1974), pp. 35-55 23  
Hazelton (W. Dean) Strawson and Persons and their Bodies 3 More Philosophical Studies 1976, 30: 137-142 6  
Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) Souls and Bodies 3 More Hoffman & Rosenkrantz - Substance among other categories: Chapter 5, 1994 38  
James (Susan) Feminism in Philosophy of Mind: The Question of Personal Identity 1 Abstract
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Fricker & Hornsby - The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, 2000 20 Yes
Long (Douglas) The Bodies of Persons 1 Abstract
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Journal of Philosophy 71, No. 10 (May 30, 1974), 291-301 11 Yes
Loose (Jonathan) Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief 1 Abstract
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Philosophia Christi Vol. 14, No. 2 ©2012 11 Yes
Lowe (E.J.) Persons and Their Bodies 2 Abstract
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Lowe - Kinds of Being, 1989, Chapter 7 17  
Madell (Geoffrey) Body 4 Abstract
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Madell - The Identity of the Self, 1981, Chapter 3 29  
Madell (Geoffrey) Materialism and the First Person 3 Abstract
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O'Hear - Minds and Persons, 2003 18  
Madell (Geoffrey) Personal Identity and the Mind-Body Problem 3 More Smythies & Beloff, The Case for dualism, 1989, Chapter 2 16  
Martin (Michael G.F.) Bodily Awareness: A Sense of Ownership 4 More Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self 20  
Mavrodes (George I.) The Life Everlasting and the Bodily Criterion of Identity 1 Abstract
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Nous 11.1, March 1977, pp. 27-39 13 Yes
Michaud (Derek) Review of 'Personal Identity and Resurrection: How do we Survive our Death?' Edited by Georg Gasser 1 Abstract
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The Heythrop Journal Volume 54, Issue 2, March 2013 Pages 330–331 4 17%
Noonan (Harold) The Self and the Future 1 Abstract
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Noonan - Personal Identity, 2003, Chapter 10 18 Yes
Odegard (Douglas) Personal and Bodily Identity 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Quarterly, 1969, 69-71 3 Yes
Olson (Eric) Is there a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity 1 Abstract
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MacBride - Identity and Modality, 2006, Chapter 11 19  
O'Shaughnessy (Brian) Proprioception and the Body Image 4 More Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self 30  
Penelhum (Terence) 'Bodily Transfer' 2 More Penelhum - Survival and Disembodied Existence, 1970, Chapter 7 11  
Perry (John) Williams on The Self and the Future 1 Abstract
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Perry - Identity, Personal Identity and the Self, 2002, Chapter 6 16  
Plantinga (Alvin) Against Materialism 1 Abstract
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University of Notre Dame website; Faith and Philosophy, 23:1 (January 2006), 3-32. 48 3%
Pollock (John L.) Persons and Bodies 3 Abstract
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Pollock - How to Build a Person, Chapter 2 25  
Robinson (Howard) A Dualist Account of Embodiment 3 More Smythies & Beloff, The Case for dualism, 1989. Chapter 3 15  
Shaffer (Jerome) Persons and Their Bodies 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Review 75, No. 1 (Jan., 1966), 59-77 19 Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney) Embodiment and Behavior 1 Abstract
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Rorty (Amelie) - The Identities of Persons, 1976 26 Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney) Personal Identity: a Materialist Account 1 Abstract
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Shoemaker & Swinburne - Personal Identity, 1984, pp. 67-132 66 22%
Shoemaker (Sydney) Reply to Swinburne 1 More Shoemaker & Swinburne - Personal Identity, 1984, pp. 139-152 14  
Shorter (J.M.) More About Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity 3 More Analysis 22, 1962, pp. 79-85 7  
Shusterman (Richard) William James, Somatic Introspection, And Care Of The Self 4 More Philosophical Forum, Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 2005, pp. 419-440(22) 22  
Smart (Brian) How can Persons be Ascribed M-Predicates? 1 Abstract
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Mind, 1977, 49-66 18 Yes
Smith (Joel) Review of 'How the Body Shapes the Mind' By Shaun Gallagher 3 Abstract
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O'Hear - Philosophy - 82/319 (January 2007) 4  
Smythe (Thomas W.) The Identity of Persons and Bodies 3 More Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1981, 85-94 10  
Steinhart (Eric) The Revision Theory of Resurrection 1 Abstract
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Religious Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Mar., 2008), pp. 63-81 19 6%
Strickland (Lloyd) The doctrine of 'the resurrection of the same body' in early modern thought 1 Abstract
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Religious Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2 (june 2010), pp. 163-183 21 6%
Taylor (Richard) Persons and Bodies 1 Abstract
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Taylor (Richard) - Metaphysics, Chapter 2 9  
Taylor (Richard) Persons and Bodies 3 More American Philosophical Quarterly, 16(1), January 1979, 67-72 6  
Thomas (Janice L.) The bodily criterion 1 Abstract
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Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion 8 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Bodily Continuity 1 Abstract
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Torriani (Tristan Guillermo) Perspectivism and Intersubjective Criteria for Personal Identity: A Defense of Bernard Williams’ Criterion of Bodily Continuity 2 Abstract
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Princípios 15 (23):153-190 (2008) 38 3%
Turner (Geoffrey) Varieties of Resurrection 1 Abstract
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New Blackfriars, Vol. 56, No. 661 (June 1975), pp. 272-276 5 17%
Tye (Michael) In Defense of the Words 'Human Body' 2 Abstract
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Philosophical Studies, 38:177-182, 1980. 6  
Van Inwagen (Peter) And Yet There Are Not Three Gods But One God 2 More Morris (Ed.) Philosophy and the Christian Faith, 1988 38  
Van Inwagen (Peter) Philosophers and the Words 'Human Body' 1 Abstract
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Peter van Inwagen, Ed, Time and Cause, 1980, 283-299 17 Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter) The Possibility of Resurrection 1 Abstract
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The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 9, 1978 8 56%
Vesey (Godfrey N.A.) Are Persons Identified Only By Reference to Their Bodies 2 More Vesey - Personal Identity: A Philosophical Analysis, Chapter 6 11  
Weiss (Gail) Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality 4 Abstract
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Weiss - Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality 210  
Wiggins (David) Essentialism, Continuity, and Identity 3 Abstract
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Synthese, Vol. 28, No. 3/4, On Logical Semantics (Nov., 1974) (pp. 321-359) 39  
Wiggins (David) Reply to Mr. Chandler 3 More Analysis 29.5, 1969, pp.175-176 2  
Williams (Bernard) Are Persons Bodies? 1 Abstract
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Williams - Problems of the Self (1970) 18 Yes
Williams (Bernard) Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity 1 Abstract
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Williams - Problems of the Self (Analysis XXI, 1960) 7 Yes
Williams (Bernard) The Self and the Future 1 Abstract
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Williams - Problems of the Self 20 Yes

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