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Diachronic Emergence as Transubstantiation
Diachronic emergence has recently been characterised as transformation. This aims to capture the thought that the entities that emerge are radically...
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Affectivity in its Relation to Personal Identity
My aim is to propose affectivity as a criterion for personal identity. My proposal is to be taken in its weak version: affectivity as only one of the...
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Synchronic and diachronic identity for elementary particles
The main focus of this paper is on the notion of transtemporal (diachronic) identity applied to quantum particles. I pose the question of how the...
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Dissolving the Causal-Constitution Fallacy: Diachronic Constitution and the Metaphysics of Extended Cognition
This chapter questions the causal-constitution fallacy raised against the extended mind. It does so by presenting our signature temporal thesis about...
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There is nothing to identity
Several have denied that there is, specifically, a criterion of identity for persons and some deny that there are, for any kind, diachronic criteria...
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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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The Becoming of Identity: A Process-Ontological View on the Relational Co-existence of Biological Beings
A fundamental issue when thinking about the agency of organisms is the question of their identity. How could we talk of a biological being’s ongoing...
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Toward a Neuro-ethics in Islamic Philosophy: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity
This study deals specifically with one of the most relevant issues in neuro-ethics, namely the philosophical classification of so-called memory...
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Analysis of Argumentation in the Discussion Sections of Published Articles in ESP Journal: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Approach
Argumentation has remained under-researched in studies analyzing academic journal publications despite its importance in academic writing. This paper...
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A Diachronic Consistency Argument for Minimizing One’s Own Rights Violations
Deontologists are united in asserting that there are side-constraints on permissible action, prohibiting acts of murder, theft, infidelity, etc.,...
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Theseus’ Ship: A Possible Response from an Indian Realist
This article will critically examine the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika theory of substance ( dravya ). The Buddhists are reductionists, who believe that there is no...
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Time-Consciousness and Affective Identity
This chapter combines the problems of the affective unconscious and affective identity with the minimal self, more precisely, with the notion of the...
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Personal identity, possible worlds, and medical ethics
Thought experiments that concoct bizarre possible world modalities are standard fare in debates on personal identity. Appealing to intuitions raised...
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A new perspective on criteria of identity
Are identity criteria grounding principles? The recent debate over this issue seems to indicate a definitively negative answer. Recognising various...
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Identity and Food Choice: You Are What You Eat?
We use Marya Schechtman’s Narrative Self-Constitution View to support the widespread idea that food can contribute to the construction and expression...
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Can thought experiments solve problems of personal identity?
Good physical experiments conform to the basic methodological standards of experimental design: they are objective, reliable, and valid. But is this...
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Composition as Identity and the Logical Roots of Leibniz’s Nominalism
The paper deals with Leibniz’s ontology and the metaphysics of the aggregate. Concerning the ontology of aggregates, the main aim is to provide a new...
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The identification game: deepfakes and the epistemic limits of identity
The fast development of synthetic media, commonly known as deepfakes , has cast new light on an old problem, namely—to what extent do people have a...
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Two pictures of communication: from content identity to coordination
In this paper, I discuss two influential pictures of communication and the relation between them. One picture holds that successful communication...
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Diachronic causal constitutive relations
Mechanistic approaches are very common in the causal interpretation of biological and neuroscientific experimental work in today’s philosophy of...
