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Internal identity is (partly) dispositional identity
‘Semantic externalism’ is the view that the thought and speech of internally identical subjects can have different contents, depending on facts about...
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Identity and Harmony and Modality
Stephen Read presented harmonious inference rules for identity in classical predicate logic. I demonstrate here how this approach can be generalised...
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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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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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Identity Theory and Falsifiability
I identify a class of arguments against multiple realization (MR): BookofSand arguments. The arguments are in their general form successful under...
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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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From representationalism to identity representationalism
Representationalism about consciousness is the view that the phenomenal character of an experience supervenes on the content of that experience. Much...
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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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On Aspects, Identity Theory, and the Dual Aspect Account
On the powerful qualities view, every fundamental property is both dispositional and qualitative. Identity theory is the standard account of the...
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Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry
I put forward an inferentialist account of Lewis structures (LSs). In this view, the role of LSs is not to realistically depict molecules, but...
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An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate
Human heritable genome editing (HHGE) involves editing the genes of human gametes and/or early human embryos. Whilst ‘identity’ is a key concept...
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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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Identity of Proofs
Proof-theoretic semantics is here presented as primarily concerned with the investigation of the relationship between proofs (understood as abstract...
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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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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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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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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 Quantification
This work examines a number of arguments to the effect that quantification requires identity of the objects that are quantified over; the arguments...
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Identity, Difference and Diversity: A Journey from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka-Upaniṣad to Mukund Lath
In this paper, I offer a close comparative reading of a creation myth from chapter 1 of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka-Upaniṣad , which opens with the startling...