Section : Thought

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.

Author	Title	Priority	Abstract	Source	Pages	Read?
Barbour (Ian)	Process Thought	1	More	Barbour - Religion in an Age of Science, 1990	25
Baum (Eric B.)	What is Thought?	3	Abstract More	Baum (Eric B.) - What is Thought?	478	2%
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Ascribing Thoughts to Non-linguistic Creatures: Modes of Presentation	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words, Chapter 5	21
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Ascribing Thoughts to Non-linguistic Creatures: Toward an Ontology	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words, Chapter 4	24
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Language and Thinking about Thoughts	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words, Chapter 8	15
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Minimalist Approaches to Non-linguistic Thought	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words, Chapter 3	30
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	The Limits of Thinking without Words	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words, Chapter 9	24
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	The Problem of Thinking without Words	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words, Chapter 1	10	56%
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Thinking Without Words: Afterword	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words	30
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Thinking Without Words: Preface	1	Abstract More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words	10	56%
Bermudez (Jose Luis)	Two Approaches to the Nature of Thought	1	More	Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Thinking Without Words, Chapter 2	21	11%
Braine (David)	The 'Objects' of the Mind In Speaking and Thinking	2	Abstract More	Braine (David) - The Human Person: Animal and Spirit, 1993, Chapter 11	49
Braine (David)	The Second Refutation of Mechanism: Linguistic Understanding and Thinking Have No Bodily Organ	2	Abstract More	Braine (David) - The Human Person: Animal and Spirit, 1993, Chapter 12	33
Brierley (John)	The Thinking Machine: Genes, Brain, Endocrines, and Human Nature	4	Abstract More	Brierley (John) - The Thinking Machine: Genes, Brain, Endocrines, and Human Nature	200
Brinck (Ingar)	The Indexical 'I': The First Person in Thought and Language	3	Abstract More	Brinck (Ingar) - The Indexical 'I': The First Person in Thought and Language	189
Camp (Elisabeth)	A language of baboon thought?	2	Abstract More	Robert W. Lurz (ed.), The Philosophy of Animal Minds. Cambridge University Press (2009), Chapter 6	20	6%
Cassam (Quassim)	Reductionism and First-Person Thinking	1	More	Reduction, Explanation, and Realism , ed. David Charles and Kathleen Lennon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 362-380.	20	Yes
Cole (David)	Thought and Thought Experiments	1	Abstract More	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3 (May, 1984), pp. 431-444	14	17%
Davies (Martin)	Language, thought, and the language of thought: Aunty's own argument revisited	3	Abstract More	Carruthers & Boucher - Language and Thought, 1998	22
Dawkins (Marian Stamp)	Thinking Ahead	3	More	Dawkins (Marion Stamp) - Through our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness, Chapter 4	36
Dehaene (Stanislas)	Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts	2	Abstract More	Dehaene (Stanislas) - Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts	274	3%
Dennett (Daniel)	Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking	1	Abstract More	Dennett (Daniel) - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking	512	9%
Gagliano (Monica)	The mind of plants: Thinking the unthinkable	1	Abstract More	Communicative and Integrative Biology, 10, 2017	5	Yes
Griffin (Donald)	Communication as Evidence of Thinking	2	More	Griffin (Donald) - Animal Minds, 1992, Chapter 8	21
Griffin (Donald)	Physiological Indices of Thinking	2	More	Griffin (Donald) - Animal Minds, 1992, Chapter 7	12
Hershenov (David)	Are There Too Many Hylomorphic Individuals Thinking about this Life and the Next?	1	Abstract More	Keynote for the Talbot Philosophical Society Graduate Conference	21	11%
Heyes (Cecilia M.)	Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking	1	Abstract More	Heyes (Cecilia M.) - Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking	304	Yes
Heyes (Cecilia M.)	New thinking: the evolution of human cognition	1	Abstract More	Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1599, New thinking: the evolution of human cognition (5 August 2012), pp. 2091-2096	6	33%
Jeeves (Malcolm A.)	How Free is Free - Reflections on the Neuropsychology of Thought and Action	2	Abstract More	Science & Christian Belief, Vol 16, No. 2, 2004	22	6%
Kasparov (Garry), Greengard (Mig)	Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins	1	Abstract More	Kasparov (Garry), Greengard (Mig) - Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins	304	Yes
Krakauer (David C.)	At the limits of thought	1	Abstract More	Aeon, 20 April 2020	9	Yes
Kripke (Saul)	A Puzzle about Time and Thought	1	More	Kripke (Saul) - Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1	8
Madden (Rory)	Thinking Parts	1	Abstract More	Blatti & Snowdon - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, 2016: Part II, Chapter 9, pp. 180-207	40	18%
Marshall (Richard) & Tye (Michael)	Michael Tye: Thinking Fish & Zombie Caterpillars	1	Abstract More	Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM	8	22%
Merleau-Ponty (Maurice) & Morando (Bruno)	Experience and Objective Thought. The Problem of the Body	4	More	Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception (Part 1), Introduction	6
Miller (Jonathan)	Primitive Thoughts	4	More	Kolak & Martin - Self and Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues	9
Moran (Alexander P.)	Animalism and the Thinking Parts Problem	1	Abstract More	Personal website.	15	17%
Moreland (J.P.)	Locke's Parity Thesis about Thinking Matter: A Response to Williams	3	Abstract More	Religious Studies, 34, Issue 03, September 1998, pp 253-259	7
Priest (Graham)	Objects of Thought	3	Abstract More	Priest - Towards Non-Being, 2005, Chapter 3	26
Priest (Graham)	The Limits of Thought - and Beyond	2	More	Mind, New Series, Vol. 100, No. 3 (Jul., 1991), pp. 361-370	10
Proust (Joelle)	Thinking of oneself as the same	2	Abstract More	Consciousness and Cognition, 2003, 12, 4, 495-509	15	8%
Rapparini (Ruggero)	Thinking Matter and Computational Skills	4	Abstract More	Quantum Biosystems, 1(1) 44-50, 2008	7
Rorty (Amélie Oksenberg)	Descartes on thinking with the body	4	More	Cottingham - The Cambridge Companion to Descartes	22
Rowson (Jonathan)	Deep Thinking?	1	Abstract More	New In Chess, 2017/5, pp. 44-49	6	Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Thinking Animals Without Animalism	1	Abstract More	Blatti & Snowdon - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, 2016: Part I, Chapter 6, pp. 128-141	17	33%
Stone (Alison)	Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death	1	More	Aeon, 20 November, 2019	3	Yes
Tammet (Daniel)	Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives	1	Abstract More	Tammet (Daniel) - Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives	240	5%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thought	1	Abstract More		100	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Unity and Thinking	1	More	Van Inwagen - Material Beings; 1990; Ch. 12	9
Viger (Christopher)	Learning to Think: A Response to the Language of Thought Argument for Innateness	3	Abstract More	Mind and Language, Volume 20, Number 3, June 2005, pp. 313-325(13)	13

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