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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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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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Parfitian or Buddhist reductionism? Revisiting a debate about personal identity
Derek Parfit influentially defends reductionism about persons, the view that a person’s existence just consists in the existence of a brain and body...
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Some Problems for the Phenomenal Approach to Personal Identity
I present some problems for phenomenal (i.e. consciousness-based) accounts of personal identity and egoistic concern. These accounts typically rely...
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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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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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The Non-identity Problem and the Psychological Account of Personal Identity
According to the psychological account of personal identity, our identity is based on the continuity of psychological connections, and so we do not...
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Time-Consciousness, Subjective Idealism, and Personal Identity
This chapter concentrates on the issue of the identity of the self, its temporality, its reflexive self-consciousness, and the classic problem of...
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Personal Identity and Extrinsicness
In this discussion, I defend the best-candidate theories of personal identity from the charge that their commitment to the extrisicness of identity...
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Phenomenological approaches to personal identity
This special issue addresses the debate on personal identity from a phenomenological viewpoint, especially contemporary phenomenological research on...
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When time becomes personal. Aging and personal identity
Aging is an integral part of human existence. The problem of aging addresses the most fundamental coordinates of our lives but also the ones of the...
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Personal identity is social identity
The question of the identity or persistence of the self through time may be interesting for philosophers, but it is hardly a burning question for...
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Time-Consciousness, Personal Identity, and Loneliness
Plato, in the Sophist, presciently foretells of a perennial philosophical Battle between the Gods and the Giants, between the idealists, dualists,...
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Self-identity and personal identity
The key to understanding self-identity is identifying the transcendental structures that make a temporally extended, continuous, and unified...
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How Sceptical Is Hume’s Theory of Personal Identity?
Andrew Ward argues, at odds with the standard interpretation of Hume on the self, that the Appendix does not express Hume’s dissatisfaction with the...
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Personal identity: birth, death and the conditions of selfhood
What makes us the same person across time? The different solutions to this problem known as personal identity can be divided into two camps: A...
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Hume and Kames on the Self and Personal Identity
Josef Moural suggests that new light may be cast on the Appendix by considering Henry Home’s criticisms of the Treatise. The Appendix deals mainly...
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Saying no (to a story): personal identity and negativity
The concept of narrativity and narrative identity has two birth certificates: it is linked to the phenomenological tradition—beginning with Arendt’s...
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Personal Identity and Reductionism
In this discussion, I examine theories that purport to provide an ontological reduction of persons. I argue that such theories are either false or...