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Moral Identity, Moral Integration, and Autobiographical Narrative
Moral identity theorists argue that moral action is explained by the centrality of moral values to a person’s identity. Moral identity theorists...
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The Ethics of Memory Modification: Personal Narratives, Relational Selves and Autonomy
For nearly two decades, ethicists have expressed concerns that the further development and use of memory modification technologies (MMTs)—techniques...
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Persistence Narrativism and the Determinacy of Personal Identity
We have a strong intuition that personal identity is a determinate relationship. Parfit famously challenged this intuition. In this paper I explain...
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Is Perception or Self-Consciousness Primary? To Which First Principle Does Personal Identity Belong?
Using Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, as the standard bearer for the empiricist’s theory of personal identity, in this chapter the...
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Identification with Change: Narrative Identity, Enhancements and Transformative Experience
New medical technologies promise to allow us to transform our core characteristics. Some see these technologies as filled with promise. Others see...
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Personal Identity: The Formation of Person in Edith Stein’s Thought
How might “personal identity” be understood on two levels: a philosophical level and a psycologic-pedagogical level? This chapter will review Edith...
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Self-identity in emotion enhancement
This paper investigates the impacts of emotion enhancement on self-identity and assesses possible ethical consequences of these changes. It...
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Memory, Identity, and Dementia
People with dementia often undergo profound changes in attitudes and behavior. Following such changes, it can be difficult for carers to know the...
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Personal Autonomy and (Digital) Technology: An Enactive Sensorimotor Framework
Many digital technologies, designed and controlled by intensive data-driven corporate platforms, have become ubiquitous for many of our daily...
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Zhuangzi and Personal Autonomy
I apply the Zhuangzi 莊子 to assess the contemporary value of personal autonomy. Focusing on two concepts, wuwei 無為 and you 遊, I clarify the “wandering...
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Group (Non) Identity and Historical Justice
The Non-Identity Problem (NIP) has been recognized as a hindrance in justifying compensation for historical injustice. Since NIP applies to...
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New Insights into the Relational Subject: Connecting Personal and Collective Identity
After the publication of The Relational Subject (Donati and Archer, The relational subject. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015), the issue...
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On Personal Identity
In this discussion, we focus on central metaphysical questions about persons and the theories that try to answer them.
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On what matters. Personal identity as a phenomenological problem
This paper focuses on the connection between meaning, the specific field of phenomenological philosophy, and mattering, the cornerstone of personal...
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The impact of ethical leadership on organizational identity in digital startups: does employee voice matter?
Ethical leadership can lead to preparing the ground for employee voice, highlighting employees’ creativity, and encouraging knowledge-sharing...
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Embodiment and personal identity in dementia
Theories of personal identity in the tradition of John Locke and Derek Parfit emphasize the importance of psychological continuity and the abilities...
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Blocking Kripke’s Argument Against the Type-Identity Theory of Mind
In this paper, I present a two-pronged argument devoted to defending the type-identity theory of mind against the argument presented by Kripke in Namin...
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“Ruptured selves: moral injury and wounded identity”
Moral injury is the trauma caused by violations of deeply held values and beliefs. This paper draws on relational philosophical anthropologies to...
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Agency and aesthetic identity
Schiller says that “it is only through beauty that man makes his way to freedom.” Here I attempt to defend a claim in the same spirit as Schiller’s...
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Personal identity, transformative experiences, and the future self
The article explores the relation between personal identity and life-changing decisions such as the decision for a certain career or the decision to...