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Personal Identity

Individual

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. We often refer to persons², or human beings³, as “individuals”, but this is just an index for “X”, where “X” is a “person”, “human being”, or such-like, without being explicit about what category of being is referred to.
  2. Hence, it may betray confusion or uncertainty about the sort⁴ of thing we are⁵, an equation of the various possibilities, or the assumption of one position as the only available one.
  3. Be this as it may, the main topic to be covered under this head will be the problem of individuation – how to tell one thing from another.
  4. Individuation is an important question because until we have identified a particular individual, and separated it from others in the locality, we can’t sensibly talk about its persistence⁶.
  5. The whole idea of individuation depends – in part – on adopting a substance⁷ rather than process⁸ view of metaphysics. However, if we take the process line, we then have to have criteria for individuating processes, which may be even more difficult, so the question doesn’t just go away.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. This is a very complex topic, and overlaps with certain other topics, including:-
     • Nihilism⁹,
     • Ontology¹⁰
     • Etc.

References

• Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
• For a Page of Links¹¹ to this Note, Click here. Because of the huge number of links associated with “Individual(s)”, I’ve restricted the list to “Individuation”.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹², include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Skillings (Derek J.) - Life is not easily bounded", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Code (Alan) - What Is It To Be An Individual?", 1978, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals", 2007, Write-Up Note¹³, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Brains", 2007, Write-Up Note¹⁴, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Bundles", 2007, Write-Up Note¹⁵, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Quine (W.V.) - Review of Milton Munitz's 'Identity and Individuation'", 1972, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Strawson (Peter) - Individuals: Introduction", 1979
    7. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Individuality", 2009
    8. "Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Introduction", 1967
    9. "Wiggins (David) - Preface: Sameness and Substance", 1980, Annotations
    10. "Wiggins (David) - Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Annotations
    11. "Wiggins (David) & Woods (Michael J.) - Symposium: The Individuation of Things and Places", 1963, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Wilson (Jack) - Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities", 1999, Book
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Allaire (Edwin B.) - Things, Relations and Identity", 1967, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - The Principle of Individuation: II", 1953
    3. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Individuals Without Sortals", 1974, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    4. "Barber (Kenneth F.) - Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy (Descartes to Kant): Introduction", 1994
    5. "Bergmann (Gustav) - Individuals", 1958, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Bergmann (Gustav) - Strawson's Ontology", 1960, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Bottani (Andrea C.) - Individuals, Essence and Identity: TOC & Introduction", 2002, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Castaneda (Hector-Neri) - Individuation and Non-Identity: A New Look", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Collier (John) - Self-Organization, Individuation and Identity", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    10. "DeGrazia (David) - Prenatal Identity: Genetic Interventions, Reproductive Choices", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    11. "Doyle (Robert O.) - The Problem of Individuation", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Ford (Norman) - Criteria For Being a Human Individual", 1988
    13. "Gabbay (Dov M.) & Moravcsik (Julius) - Sameness and Individuation", 1973, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Gracia (Jorge J.E.) - Individual", 1996, No Abstract
    15. "Haber (Matt) - Colonies Are Individuals: Revisiting the Superorganism Revival", 2013, External Link, Read = 6%
    16. "Lewis (David) - Individuation By Acquaintance and By Stipulation", 1983, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Lombard (Lawrence B.) - Individuation", 1996, No Abstract
    18. "Lowe (E.J.) - Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation", 2009
    19. "Lowe (E.J.) - Individuation", 2003, No Abstract
    20. "Marcus (Ruth Barcan) - On Some Post 1920s Views of Russell on Particularity, Identity, and Individuation", 1986, No Abstract
    21. "Munitz (Milton) - Identity and Individuation", 1970, Book
    22. "Pears (David) - Review of Perter Strawson's 'Individuals'", 1961, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Perry (John) - Individuals in Informational and Intentional Content", 1993, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Perry (John) - The Two Faces of Identity", 2002
    25. "Popper (Karl) - The Principle of Individuation: III", 1953
    26. "Prior (Arthur N.) - Identifiable Individuals", 1960, Internal PDF Link
    27. "Quinton (Anthony) - Individuation", 1973
    28. "Rosenkrantz (Gary) - The Problem of Individuation", 1993, No Abstract
    29. "Rovane (Carol) - Why Do Individuals Matter?", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Russell (Bertrand) - The Principle of Individuation", 1948, No Abstract
    31. "Sidelle (Alan) - Necessity, Essence, and Individuation", 1989, Book
    32. "Sidelle (Alan) - Necessity, Essence, and Individuation: Preface", 1989, No Abstract
    33. "Sidelle (Alan) - The Commitment to Analyticity", 1989
    34. "Strawson (Peter) - Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics", 1960, Book, Read = 4%, Footnote₁₆
    35. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Identities of Material Objects", 1990, Annotations, No Abstract, Read = 8%
    36. "Wiggins (David) - Essentialism, Continuity, and Identity", 1974, Internal PDF Link
    37. "Wiggins (David) - On Singling Out an Object Determinately", 1986, No Abstract
    38. "Williams (Bernard) - Personal Identity and Individuation", 1957, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    39. "Williams (Bernard) - Strawson On Individuals", 1961, Internal PDF Link
    40. "Williams (Mary) - Species Are Individuals: Theoretical Foundations for the Claim", 1985, Internal PDF Link
    41. "Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz's Law", 2002, Read = 15%
    42. "Wilson (N.L.) - Space, Time and Individuals", 1955, Internal PDF Link

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder¹⁷.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 16:

• This is a difficult book with which I expect to have little sympathy, but one that has to be read.

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Table of the Previous 10 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
20/09/2022 11:24:00	4312	Individual
02/05/2022 23:44:10	3909	Individual
02/07/2021 20:32:38	3631	Individual
12/02/2021 23:58:34	3262	Individual
26/09/2020 19:58:05	2561	Individual
19/07/2018 13:56:38	3983	Individual
14/01/2017 20:18:14	1871	Individual
18/12/2010 19:58:05	440	Individual
26/11/2007 23:25:26	428	Individual
12/08/2007 10:17:46	80	Individual

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Individual	Person

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Human Beings	Jen_071022 (Dennett)	Nihilism	Note Links Explanation
Olson - What Are We? Animals	Olson - What Are We? Brains	Olson - What Are We? Bundles	Ontology	Persistence
Person	Plug Note Apologia	Process Metaphysics	Sortals	Substance
Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Change	Constitution View - Objections	Corpses
Dicephalus	Dracula, 2	Evolution	Existential Passage, 2, 3	Fetuses
Fiction	First-Person Perspective	Fission, 2	Fusion	Future Great Pain Test
Immortality	Metamorphosis	Metaphysics	Modality	Olson - What Are We? The Question
Persistent Vegetative State	Person	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Pregnancy	Process Metaphysics
Reduplication Objections	Semantics	Ship of Theseus	Status: Personal Identity (2025 - December)	Status: Priority Task List (2026 - February)
Status: Summary (2025 - December)	Teletransportation	Temporary Intrinsics	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism), 2, 3, 4	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
Twinning	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Zygote

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Allaire (Edwin B.)	Another Look at Bare Particulars	Paper	2
Allaire (Edwin B.)	Things, Relations and Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4
Anscombe (G.E.M.)	The Principle of Individuation: II	Paper	2
Aquinas (Thomas)	God's Nature Cannot Be Separated from His Existence	Paper		Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Individuals Without Sortals	Paper
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on 'Masses of Matter'	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	A Farewell to Functionalism	Paper	2, 3, 4
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Brief Reply to Rosenkrantz's Comments on my 'The Ontological Status of Persons'	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Functionalism	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?' by Nancey Murphy	Paper		Yes
Baldwin (Thomas)	Reviews: Sameness and Substance by David Wiggins; Objects and Identity by Harold Noonan	Paper
Barber (Kenneth F.)	Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy (Descartes to Kant): Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Blatti (Stephan)	Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self', by Raymond Martin and John Barresi	Paper		Yes
Bolton (Martha Brandt)	Locke on Identity: The Scheme of Simple and Compound Things	Paper	2
Brody (Baruch)	On the Ontological Priority of Physical Objects	Paper
Castaneda (Hector-Neri)	Individuation and Non-Identity: A New Look	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Castaneda (Hector-Neri)	Intensionality and Identity in Human Action and Philosophical Method	Paper
Castaneda (Hector-Neri)	Philosophical Method and The Theory of Predication and Identity	Paper
Charlton (William)	Spinoza's Monism	Paper
Cocchiarella (Nino)	On the Logic of Natural Kinds	Paper
Cohen (S. Mark)	Aristotle and Individuation	Paper	2, 3, 4
Collier (John)	Self-Organization, Individuation and Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Crane (Judith) & Sandler (Ronald)	Identity and Distinction in Spinoza's Ethics	Paper
Cross (Charles B.)	Max Black on the Identity of Indiscernibles	Paper
DeGrazia (David)	Prenatal Identity: Genetic Interventions, Reproductive Choices	Paper	2
Doepke (Frederick)	The Kinds of Things: A Theory of Personal Identity Based on Transcendental Argument: Preface	Paper
Donnelly (John)	Suicide and Rationality	Paper
Doyle (Robert O.)	N/A	Author
Figdor (Carrie)	Verbs and Minds	Paper
Fodor (Jerry)	A Theory of Content and Other Essays	Book
Fodor (Jerry)	The Language of Thought	Book
Ford (Norman)	Fertilization and the Beginning of a Human Individual	Paper
Ford (Norman)	When Did I Begin: Conception of the Human Individual in History, Philosophy and Science	Book
French (Steven) & Krause (Décio)	Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis	Book
Gabbay (Dov M.) & Moravcsik (Julius)	Sameness and Individuation	Paper
Goldman (Alvin)	A Theory of Human Action	Book	2
Goldman (Alvin)	The Individuation of Action	Paper
Greimann (Dirk)	Is Zalta’s Individuation of Intensional Entities Circular?	Paper	2, 3, 4
Griffin (Nicholas)	Relative Identity	Book	2
Haldane (John)	Naturalism and Mind	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Hamlyn (D.W.)	Substance	Paper
Harms (William)	Naturalizing Epistemology: Prospectus 2006	Paper
Hartshorne (Charles)	The Necessarily Existent	Paper		Yes
Hershenov (David)	Can There Be Spatially Coincident Entities of the Same Kind?	Paper
Hirsch (Eli)	Dividing Reality	Book
Hirsch (Eli)	Natural Kinds and Natural Units	Paper		Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	Ontology and the Division Problem	Paper
Hirsch (Eli)	Projectibility and Strange Languages	Paper
Jubien (Michael)	The Myth of Identity Conditions	Paper
Kaufman (Dan)	Locke on Individuation and the Corpuscular Basis of Kinds	Paper	2
Keranen (Jukka)	The Identity Problem for Realist Structuralism II: A Reply to Shapiro	Paper
Kobes (Bernard W.)	Review of Tye - Consciousness and Persons - Unity and Identity	Paper
Kolak (Daniel)	I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics	Book	2
Kraay (K.J.)	Externalism, Memory and Self-Knowledge	Paper
Lin (Martin)	Memory and Personal Identity in Spinoza	Paper
Lloyd (A.C.)	Aristotle's Principle of Individuation	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Locke (Don)	Who I Am	Paper
Loux (Michael)	Metaphysics - A Contemporary Introduction	Book
Lowe (E.J.)	Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	Book
Lukasiewicz (Jan)	The Principle of Individuation: I	Paper
MacBride (Fraser)	The Julius Caesar Objection: More Problematic than Ever	Paper
Mackie (Penelope)	Sortal Concepts and Essential Properties	Paper
McCall (Catherine)	Problems of Personal Identity	Paper
McCullough (Laurence)	Leibniz’s Principle of Individuation in His Disputatio metaphysica de principio individui of 1663	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
McGinn (Colin)	Existence	Paper	2
Ming-Yang (Michael)	Privacy, Individuation, and Recognition	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Locke	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe	Paper	2	Yes
Oderberg (David)	The Ontology of Stages (Being the Orthodox/Humean Theory of Identity)	Paper
O'Hear (Anthony)	What Philosophy is: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy	Book
Olson (Eric)	Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of Jack Wilson's 'Biological Individuality: The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities'	Paper
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper		Yes
O'Shaughnessy (Brian)	Proprioception and the Body Image	Paper
Pap (Arthur)	Nominalism, Empiricism and Universals - II	Paper	2
Paul (L.A.)	Coincidence as Overlap	Paper
Peacocke (Christopher)	Justification, Realism and the Past	Paper
Peacocke (Christopher)	Sense and Justification	Paper
Perry (John)	The Two Faces of Identity	Paper	2, 3
Peschard (Isabelle) & Van Fraassen (Bas)	Identity over Time: Objectively, Subjectively	Paper	2
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book
Pietroski (Paul)	Actions as Inner Causes	Paper
Pietroski (Paul)	Modal Concerns	Paper
Popper (Karl)	Some Remarks on the Self	Paper
Quine (W.V.)	From a Logical Point of View: Foreword, 1980	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Quine (W.V.)	Review of Milton Munitz's 'Identity and Individuation'	Paper		Yes
Quine (W.V.)	The Roots of Reference	Book
Quinton (Anthony)	The Nature of Things	Book
Recanati (Francois)	Indexical concepts and compositionality	Paper
Regis (Edward)	Aristotle's 'Principle of Individuation'	Paper	2
Rosenkrantz (Gary)	Haecceity: An Ontological Essay	Book
Russell (Bertrand)	Human Knowledge - Its Scope and Limits	Book
Salmon (Nathan)	Identity Facts	Paper
Sandford (Stella)	Seeing plants anew	Paper		Yes
Schaffer (Jonathan)	The Metaphysics of Causation	Paper	2
Sedley (David)	The Stoic criterion of identity	Paper	2
Shaffer (Jerome)	Persons and Their Bodies	Paper		Yes
Shapiro (Lawrence)	Mind the Adaptation	Paper
Shapiro (Stewart)	Structure and Identity	Paper
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Persons and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Sidelle (Alan)	The Commitment to Analyticity	Paper
Slors (Marc)	A Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity: The Five Problems Revisited (Personal Identity and the Metaphysics of Mind, Chapter 4)	Paper
Slors (Marc)	A Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity: The Five Problems Revisited (The Diachronic Mind, Chapter 5)	Paper
Slors (Marc)	Personal Identity and the Metaphysics of Mind: Setting the Stage	Paper
Slors (Marc)	Setting the Stage: Personal Identity and the Metaphysics of Mind	Paper
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper		Yes
Sosa (Ernest)	Subjects Among Other Things	Paper
Storr (Anthony)	Jung's Concept of Personality	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Change	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View - Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Corpses	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dicephalus	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dracula	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Evolution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fetuses	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fiction	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - First-Person Perspective	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fission	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fusion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Future Great Pain Test	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Immortality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Metamorphosis	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Modality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Persistent Vegetative State	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Person	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Pregnancy	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Process Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reduplication Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Semantics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ship of Theseus	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Teletransportation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Temporary Intrinsics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Twinning	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Zygote	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	An Essay on Free Will	Book
Voltolini (Alberto)	On the metaphysics of internalism and externalism	Paper	2, 3
Walsh (D.M.)	Wide Content Individualism	Paper
Whiting (Jennifer E.)	Form and individuation in Aristotle	Paper	2, 3
Wiggins (David)	Essentialism and Conceptualism (S&S)	Paper
Wiggins (David)	Essentialism, Continuity, and Identity	Paper	2
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity: Introduction	Paper	2	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Individuative Essentialism	Paper
Wiggins (David)	Preface: Sameness and Substance	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Reply To Shoemaker	Paper
Wiggins (David)	Sameness and Substance	Book	2, 3, 4
Wiggins (David)	Sameness and Substance Renewed	Book	2
Wiggins (David)	Sortal Concepts: A Reply to Xu	Paper
Williams (Bernard)	Personal Identity and Individuation	Paper	2
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz's Law	Paper
Wilson (Jack)	Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Wilson (Jack)	Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities	Book	2, 3, 4	Yes
Wilson (Jack)	Individuality and Equivocation	Paper		Yes
Wilson (Jack)	Personal Identity Naturalized: Our Bodies, Our Selves	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Allaire (Edwin B.)	Things, Relations and Identity	Paper - Cited	Philosophy of Science 34.3 (Sept. 1967), pp. 260-272	No
Anscombe (G.E.M.)	The Principle of Individuation: II	Paper - By Subtopic	Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society 27, 1953, 83-96. Symposium: The Principle of Individuation (Lukasiewicz, Anscombe & Popper)	No
Ayers (Michael R.)	Individuals Without Sortals	Paper - By Subtopic	Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 4.1, Sept. 1974, 113-148	10%
Bergmann (Gustav)	Individuals	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 9, No. 5/6 (Oct. - Dec., 1958), pp. 78-85	No
Bergmann (Gustav)	Strawson's Ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 57, No. 19, Sep. 15, 1960, 601-622	No
Blake (Ralph M.)	The Identity of Indiscernibles and the Principle of Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review 36.1 (Jan. 1927), pp. 44-57	No
Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds.	Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic	Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds. - Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	1%
Brogaard (Berit)	Species as individuals	Paper - By Subtopic	Biology and Philosophy, Volume 19, Number 2, March 2004, pp. 223-242(20)	No
Castaneda (Hector-Neri)	Individuation and Non-Identity: A New Look	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Apr., 1975), pp. 131-140	No
Charlton (William)	Aristotle and the Principle of Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Phronesis, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1972), pp. 239-249	11%
Code (Alan)	What Is It To Be An Individual?	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 75, No. 11 (Nov., 1978), pp. 647-648	Yes
Doyle (Robert O.)	The Problem of Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Personal Website	No
Gabbay (Dov M.) & Moravcsik (Julius)	Sameness and Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, Sept 1973; 70:16, 513-526	No
Garfield (Jay L.)	Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy	Book - By Subtopic	Garfield (Jay L.) - Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy	0%
Goldman (Alvin)	The Individuation of Action	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 68.21, Nov. 1971, pp. 761-774	No
Goodnight (Audra L.)	A Life Worth Living: Value and Responsibility	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 44: 133–149, 2019	7%
Haber (Matt)	Colonies Are Individuals: Revisiting the Superorganism Revival	Paper - By Subtopic	F. Bouchard and P. Huneman (eds), From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality, The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013)	6%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Q-S	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	29%
Hazlett (Allan)	Brutal Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Hazlett (Allan) - New Waves in Metaphysics, Chapter 4	17%
Hazlett (Allan)	New Waves in Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hazlett (Allan) - New Waves in Metaphysics	10%
Horvath ( Christopher D.)	Some Questions about Identifying Individuals: Failed Intuitions about Organisms and Species	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy of Science, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 654-668	No
Lewis (David)	Individuation By Acquaintance and By Stipulation	Paper - By Subtopic	Lewis - Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	No
Lewis (David)	Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lewis (David) - Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	5%
Lloyd (A.C.)	Aristotle's Principle of Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, New Series, Vol. 79, No. 316 (Oct., 1970), pp. 519-529	22%
Lombard (Lawrence B.)	Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim & Sosa - A Companion to Metaphysics	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Kinds of Being, 1989, Chapter 3	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Individuals, Sorts, and Instantiation	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe (E.J.) - More Kinds of Being: Chapter 3	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	M. J. Loux and D.W. Zimmerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (OUP, 2003)	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lowe (E.J.) - Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	No
Lowe (E.J.)	More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lowe (E.J.) - More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	3%
Lukasiewicz (Jan)	The Principle of Individuation: I	Paper - By Subtopic	Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society 27, 1953, 69-82. Symposium: The Principle of Individuation (Lukasiewicz, Anscombe & Popper)	No
Martin (Robert)	There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (Robert) - There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book	No
Martin (Robert)	When and Where; You and I: Indexicals and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin (Robert) - There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book	No
Midgley (Mary)	Individualism and the concept of Gaia	Paper - By Subtopic	Review of International Studies 26(05):029 - 044 · December 2000	No
Moreland (J.P.)	The Individuation of Particulars	Paper - By Subtopic	Moreland - Universals, 2001, Chapter 7	No
Moreland (J.P.)	Universals	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Moreland (J.P.) - Universals	20%
Munitz (Milton)	Identity and Individuation	Book - Cited	Munitz (Milton) - Identity and Individuation	No
Pears (David)	Review of Perter Strawson's 'Individuals'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 43, Apr., 1961, pp. 172-185	No
Popper (Karl)	The Principle of Individuation: III	Paper - By Subtopic	Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society 27, 1953, 97-120Symposium: The Principle of Individuation (Lukasiewicz, Anscombe & Popper)	No
Quinton (Anthony)	Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Quinton - The Nature of Things; Part I (Substance), Chapter 1	No
Quinton (Anthony)	The Nature of Things	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Quinton (Anthony) - The Nature of Things	No
Rashed (Mohammed Abouelleil)	In Defense of Madness: The Problem of Disability	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 44: 150–174, 2019	5%
Regis (Edward)	Aristotle's 'Principle of Individuation'	Paper - By Subtopic	Phronesis, Vol. 21, No. 2 (1976), pp. 157-166	11%
Rosenkrantz (Gary)	Haecceity: An Ontological Essay	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Haecceity: An Ontological Essay	0%
Rosenkrantz (Gary)	The Problem of Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Rosenkrantz - Haecceity: An Ontological Essay, 1993, Chapter 2	No
Russell (Bertrand)	The Principle of Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Van Inwagen & Zimmerman - Metaphysics: The Big Questions, 1998	No
Skillings (Derek J.)	Life is not easily bounded	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 24 October, 2017	Yes
Sorabji (Richard)	Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death	Book - By Subtopic	Sorabji (Richard) - Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death	1%
Strawson (Peter)	Basic Particulars	Paper - By Subtopic	Strawson - Individuals, Chapter 1.3	No
Strawson (Peter)	Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Strawson (Peter) - Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics	4%
Strawson (Peter)	Individuals: Conclusion	Paper - By Subtopic	Strawson - Individuals	No
Strawson (Peter)	Individuals: Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Strawson - Individuals	Yes
Strawson (Peter)	Logical Subjects and Existence	Paper - By Subtopic	Strawson - Individuals, Chapter 8	No
Strawson (Peter)	Reidentification	Paper - By Subtopic	Strawson - Individuals, Chapter 1.2	No
Strawson (Peter)	The Identification of Particulars	Paper - By Subtopic	Strawson - Individuals, Chapter 1.1	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Individual	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Metaphysics: The Big Questions	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean) - Metaphysics: The Big Questions	17%
Whiting (Jennifer E.)	Form and individuation in Aristotle	Paper - By Subtopic	History of Philosophy Quarterly, 3(4), 359-377. (1986).	6%
Wiggins (David) & Woods (Michael J.)	Symposium: The Individuation of Things and Places	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 37 (1963), pp. 177-216	Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Personal Identity and Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	Williams - Problems of the Self	33%
Williams (Bernard)	Problems of the Self	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Williams (Bernard) - Problems of the Self	37%
Williams (Bernard)	Strawson On Individuals	Paper - By Subtopic	Williams - Problems of the Self	No
Wilson (Jack)	Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities	Book - Cited	Wilson (Jack) - Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities	Yes
Wilson (Robert A.) & Barker (Matthew)	The Biological Notion of Individual	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, First published Thu Aug 9, 2007; substantive revision Jan 12, 2013	5%

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