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Personal Identity

Locke

(Work In Progress: output at 26/08/2025 13:53:46)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. Locke was responsible for setting the terms of engagement for the modern discussion of Personal Identity.
  2. It was Locke who first – or at least most famously – made the distinction between the Person² and the ‘Man’.
  3. The ‘Man’ is these days variously cashed out as the Human Being³ or Human Animal⁴, though for much of the time since Locke the division has been between the Mind⁵ (thought of as what the person really is) and the Body⁶.
  4. It is occasionally claimed that philosophers prefer the mind to the body, and are naturally inclined to take the “mental” side in these debates. While that may be true, the consciousness envisaged as definitive of our identity is not that of philosophical contemplation, but the everyday sort enjoyed by cobblers and the rest of us. It includes appreciation of all things bodily, and is the ground of everything that matters⁷ to us.
  5. Locke was correct in saying that the term Person⁸ is a forensic concept⁹; that is, it has to do with ethical matters. He was also right to connect the topic to the then concern with Resurrection¹⁰.
  6. However, while he’s correct to distinguish the person from the “man”, I believe him to be wrong in supposing that the “person” is separable from the “man”.
  7. Rather, we¹¹ are human beings (human animals¹²) who happen to have the property¹³ of being persons, maybe – and contentiously – only possessing that property for periods of our lives. This property cannot be transferred to some other entity or – if it can – that ‘other entity’ has undergone a change rather than becoming the new container for a mobile and ghostly entity.
  8. For Locke, the Person¹⁴ is individuated by a locus of consciousness and extends as far at that consciousness¹⁵ extends. No doubt for much of the time since Locke, this locus of consciousness was thought of as an immaterial Soul¹⁶, though Locke himself wasn’t specific that this is the case, which makes the thought experiments¹⁷ – from Locke’s ‘Prince and Cobbler’ onwards – easier to credit. However, for some time, immaterial souls have not been an option for most philosophers.
  9. All I otherwise have to say on Locke is covered by my final-year BA essay₁₈.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. In this Note I’ll be focussing on Locke’s account of Personal Identity only, not on what he has to say on many other issues. However, I’ve included everything I’ve read on Locke in the reading list below.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", 1991, Read
  2. "Locke (John) - Of Identity and Diversity", 1690, Write-Up Note¹⁹, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read
• For a page of Links²⁰ to this Note, Click here. Unfortunately, the list is too long to perform an “updating run”, so I’ve just used it to cherry-pick items for the reading list.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read²¹, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Armstrong (David) - Identity Through Time", 1980, Annotations
    2. "Arnold (Keith) - The Subject of Radical Change", 1978, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Atherton (Margaret) - Locke and the Issue Over Innateness", 1983, Write-Up Note²²
    4. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Artificial and Other Problematical Objects", 1991, No Abstract
    5. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Contemporary Reactions to Locke's Theory", 1991, No Abstract
    6. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Forms of Material Unity", 1991, No Abstract
    7. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Identity: Introduction", 1991, Annotations
    8. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke (Ontology) - Introduction & Conclusion", 1991, No Abstract
    9. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on Living Things", 1991
    10. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", 1991
    11. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy", 1991, Annotations
    12. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Personal Identity Before the Essay", 1991
    13. "Baillie (James) - What Am I?", 1993, Write-Up Note²³, Footnote₂₄
    14. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism (SEP)", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism Unburdened", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Blatti (Stephan), Ed. - The Lives of Human Animals", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Bourgeois (Warren) - Modern Philosophers' Views on Persons: More Moderns", 2003
    19. "Bourgeois (Warren) - Modern Philosophers' Views on Persons: The Renaissance and the Early Moderns", 2003
    20. "Butler (Joseph) - Of Personal Identity", 1975, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Dainton (Barry) - From Phenomenal Selves to Hyper-Selves", 2015, External Link
    22. "Duncan (Matt) - I Think, Therefore I Persist", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Fine (Kit) - A Counter-Example To Locke's Thesis", 2000, Write-Up Note²⁵, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Gale (Richard) - On Some Pernicious Thought-Experiments", 1991, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    25. "Garrett (Brian) - Persons", 1998, 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Hershenov (David) - Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity", 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    27. "Jolley (Nicholas) - Personal Identity", 1999, Annotations
    28. "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
    29. "Lowe (E.J.) - Locke: Identity", 1995, Write-Up Note²⁶, Annotations
    30. "Mackie (David) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: No Contest", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John) - Personal Identity and What Matters In Survival: An Historical Overview", 2003
    32. "Maurer (Nicholas) - Too Many Persons, or None At All?", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: A Current Controversy", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie", 2001, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    35. "Noonan (Harold) - Locke", 2003, Annotations
    36. "Noonan (Harold) - Personal Identity", 2003, Book
    37. "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
    38. "Perry (John) - The Problem of Personal Identity", 1975
    39. "Perry (John), Ed. - Personal Identity", 1975, Book
    40. "Quinton (Anthony) - The Soul", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    41. "Reid (Thomas) - Of Mr. Locke's Account of Our Personal Identity", 1975, No Abstract
    42. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
    43. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Moral Responsibility", 2009
    44. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    45. "Simons (Peter) - Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe", 1992, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    46. "Strathern (Paul) - Locke in 90 Minutes", 1996, Book
    47. "Thomas (Janice L.) - Psychological continuity", 2000
    48. "Todman (Theo) - Locke on Personal Identity", 2003, Write-Up Note²⁷
    49. "Wiggins (David) - Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind", 1976, Internal PDF Link
    50. "Wiggins (David) - Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Annotations
    51. "Wiggins (David) - The Concern to Survive", 1987, Annotations
    52. "Wiggins (David) - The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value", 1987, Annotations
    53. "Williams (Christopher) - Being, Identity and Truth: Preface", 1992
    54. "Wilson (Jack) - Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities", 1999, Annotations
    55. "Winkler (Kenneth) - Locke on Personal Identity", 1991, Annotations, No Abstract
    56. "Woolhouse (Roger) - Locke's Theory of Knowledge", 1994, Write-Up Note²⁸
  • Locke:
    1. "Locke (John) - Of Identity and Diversity", 1690, Write-Up Note²⁹, External Link, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list might start with, though – as Locke isn’t central to my positive views – I’ve left the list fairly short:-
  • General:
    1. "Allison (Henry) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity: A Re-Examination", 1966
    2. "Alston (William) & Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke on People and Substances", 1988, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Atherton (Margaret) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", 1983
    4. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)", 1991, Book, Read = 26%
    5. "Baxter (Donald L.M.) - Abstraction, Inseparability, and Identity", 1997, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Behan (David P.) - Locke on Persons and Personal Identity", 1979
    7. "Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements", 2001
    8. "Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke's Philosophy of the Mind", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
    9. "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - Locke, Property Dualism and Metaphysical Dualism", 1996, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Bolton (Martha Brandt) - Locke on Identity: The Scheme of Simple and Compound Things", 1994
    11. "Brody (Baruch) - Locke on the Identity of Persons", 1972, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    12. "Chandler (Hugh S.) - Shoemaker's Arguments Against Locke", 1969, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Chappell (Vere) - Locke on the Ontology of Matter, Living Things and Persons", 1990
    14. "Conn (Christopher Hughes) - Locke on Essence and Identity", 2003, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
    15. "Conn (Christopher Hughes) - Locke on Essence and Identity", 2003, Book
    16. "deClercq (Raphael) - A criterion of diachronic identity based on Locke's Principle", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Flew (Antony) - Locke and the Problem of Personal Identity", 1951, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Locke, Essay, Book III, Chapter 3, 'Of General Terms'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    19. "Hamilton (Andy) - A New Look At Personal Identity", 1995, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Hughes (M.W.) - Personal Identity: A Defence of Locke", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Kaufman (Dan) - Locke on Individuation and the Corpuscular Basis of Kinds", 2008?, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Kaufman (Dan) - Review of Christopher Hughes Conn: Locke on Essence and Identity", 2005, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Kaufman (Dan) - The Resurrection of the Same Body and the Ontological Status of Organisms: What Locke Should Have (and Could Have) Told Stillingfleet", 2008?, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Kornblith (Hilary) - Locke and Natural Kinds", 1995
    25. "Loptson (Peter) - Locke, Reid, and Personal Identity", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Lowe (E.J.) - Identity, Individuality, and Unity", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    27. "Mackie (J.L.) - Identity and Diversity", 1976, Footnote₃₀
    28. "Mackie (J.L.) - Personal Identity", 1976
    29. "Mattern (Ruth) - Moral Science and the Concept of a Person in Locke", 1980, No Abstract
    30. "McCall (Catherine) - Locke's Account of Personal Identity", 1990
    31. "McCann (Edwin) - Locke's Philosophy of Body", 1994, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    32. "Noonan (Harold) - Locke on Personal Identity", 1980, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Noonan (Harold) - Locke on Personal Identity", 1978, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Persons and Their Pasts", 1970, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    35. "Strawson (Galen) - 'The Secrets of All Hearts': Locke on Personal Identity", 2015, Read = 11%
    36. "Strawson (Galen) - 'Where our responsibility lies': Locke on personal identity", 2015+, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 24%
    37. "Trigg (Roger) - Ideas of Human Nature: Locke", 1999, No Abstract
    38. "Uzgalis (William) - The Anti-Essential Locke and Natural Kinds", 1988, Internal PDF Link
    39. "Wedeking (Gary) - Locke's Metaphysics of Personal Identity", 1987
    40. "Wilson (Fred) - Substance and Self in Locke and Hume", 1994
• For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link³¹. Total papers = 1.

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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-holder³².

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 18:

1. "Todman (Theo) - Locke on Personal Identity".
2. The literature on Locke – even restricted to this topic – is vast.
3. We start from "Locke (John) - Of Identity and Diversity", of course.
4. Then "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity".

Footnote 24:

• This paper – inter alia – confirms my “take” on the Cheshire Cat’s smile.
• See Draft Note, Review Comments.

Footnote 30:

• “Hume’s claim that identity is a fiction”.

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Table of the Previous 12 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
06/07/2023 00:43:12	7444	Locke
20/09/2022 11:24:00	7152	Locke
03/01/2022 23:58:34	6825	Locke
02/07/2021 20:32:38	5134	Locke
14/02/2021 12:51:50	4822	Locke
14/11/2019 19:43:41	3498	Locke
14/07/2019 18:05:46	473	Locke
11/03/2018 20:19:41	1773	Locke
18/12/2010 19:58:05	251	Locke
26/11/2007 23:25:26	296	Locke
21/10/2007 09:48:58	208	Locke
12/08/2007 10:17:46	80	Locke

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
01/04/2026 09:33:08	Locke	General Surveys

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Atherton - Locke and the Issue Over Innateness	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baillie - What Am I?	Body	Consciousness
Fine - A Counter-Example to Locke's Thesis	Forensic Property	Human Animals	Human Beings	Jen_080204 (Brandom, Chisholm, Baillie)
Locke - Essay, Book 2, Chapter 27	Locke on Personal Identity	Lowe - Locke on Identity	Mind	Note Links Explanation
Person	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage	Plug Note Apologia	Properties	Resurrection
Souls	Thought Experiments	What are We?	What Matters	Woolhouse - Locke’s Theory of Knowledge
Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Aeon Papers	Animals	Baker - In Favour Of the Constitution View	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - Personal Identity Over Time
Baker - Persons in the Material World	Biological Criterion	Closest Continuer	Connectedness vs Continuity	Daniel Dennett – Conditions of Personhood
Dion and Theon	Existential Passage	Fission	Forensic Property	Johnston - Human Beings
Multiple Personality Disorder, 2	Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2	Olson - What Are We? The Question, 2	Ontology	Person
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	Psychological View	Religion	Self-Consciousness	Snowdon - The Self and Personal Identity
Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?), 2	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 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	Unity of the Person	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	In Favour Of the Constitution View	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Brewer (Holly)	Slavery-entangled philosophy	Paper		Yes
Dennett (Daniel)	Conditions of Personhood	Paper		Yes
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: 2019+	Paper		Yes
Hershenov (David)	The Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation	Paper
Johnston (Mark)	Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?	Paper
Kagan (Shelly)	How to Count Animals, more or less	Paper
Kaufman (Dan)	The Resurrection of the Same Body and the Ontological Status of Organisms: What Locke Should Have (and Could Have) Told Stillingfleet	Paper
Lawrance (John)	Hosting Andrew	Book		Yes
Lockwood (Michael)	When Does a Life Begin?	Paper		Yes
Noller (Jorg)	A Transformative Account of Personal Identity	Paper
Noller (Jorg)	Person	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper	2	Yes
Schechtman (Marya)	Personality and Persistence: The Many Faces of Personal Survival	Paper
Smith (David Livingstone)	The essence of evil	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	The Self and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke	Paper	2	Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Review - Daniel Dennett – Conditions of Personhood	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Biological Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Closest Continuer	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Connectedness vs Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dion and Theon	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fission	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Forensic Property	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Multiple Personality Disorder	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Ontology	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	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Religion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Self-Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Unity of the Person	Paper		Yes
Vinocour (Susan)	Criminally insane	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Allison (Henry)	Locke's Theory of Personal Identity: A Re-Examination	Paper - Cited	Tipton - Locke on Human Understanding - Selected Essays	No
Alston (William) & Bennett (Jonathan)	Locke on People and Substances	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review, Vol. 97, No. 1, Jan., 1988, pp. 25-46	No
Armstrong (David)	Identity Through Time	Paper - Cited	Van Inwagen - Time and Cause, 1980, pp. 67-78	Yes
Arnold (Keith)	The Subject of Radical Change	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4 (May, 1978), pp. 395-401	Yes
Atherton (Margaret)	Locke and the Issue Over Innateness	Paper - Cited	Chappell - Locke - Oxford Readings	Yes
Atherton (Margaret)	Locke's Theory of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol VIII, 1983) - Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy	No
Ayers (Michael R.)	Artificial and Other Problematical Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 21, pp. 239-253	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Contemporary Reactions to Locke's Theory	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 24, pp. 269-277	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Forms of Material Unity	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 20, pp. 229-238	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Identity: Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Introduction to Part III, pp. 205-206	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Epistemology) - Introduction & Conclusion	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol 1 - Epistemology)	60%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Ontology) - Introduction & Conclusion	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Introduction (pp. 1-14) & Conclusion (pp. 293-295)	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Vol 1 - Epistemology)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke (Vol 1 - Epistemology)	2%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)	Book - Cited	Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)	26%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke on Living Things	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 19, pp. 216-228	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke's Theory of Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 23, pp. 260-268	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 25, pp. 278-292	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Part I: Substance and Mode	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Part I, pp. 14-130	No
Ayers (Michael R.)	Part II: God, Nature and the Law of Nature	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Part II, pp. 131-204	No
Ayers (Michael R.)	Personal Identity Before the Essay	Paper - By Subtopic	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 22, pp. 254-259	Yes
Behan (David P.)	Locke on Persons and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 9:53-75 (1979)	No
Bennett (Jonathan)	Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements	Paper - By Subtopic	Learning from Six Philosophers, Volume 2, Chapter 39, 2001	No
Bennett (Jonathan)	Locke's Philosophy of the Mind	Paper - By Subtopic	Chappell - The Cambridge Companion to Locke, 1994	14%
Bennett (Jonathan)	Substratum	Paper - By Subtopic	Chappell - Locke - Oxford Readings	No
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism (SEP)	Paper - Cited	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2014	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper - Cited	OU Website (now deleted)	Yes
Boeker (Ruth)	Locke on Personal Identity: A Response to the Problems of His Predecessors	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (2017): 407–34	4%
Boeker (Ruth)	The Moral Dimension in Locke’s Account of Persons and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	History of Philosophy Quarterly 31:3 (2014): pp. 229-247	6%
Brody (Baruch)	Locke on the Identity of Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 327-334	11%
Catterson (Troy), Ed.	Synthese Special Issue on Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Catterson (Troy), Ed. - Synthese Special Issue on Personal Identity	3%
Chandler (Hugh S.)	Shoemaker's Arguments Against Locke	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly 19, No. 76, Jul., 1969, pp. 263-265	No
Chappell (Vere), Ed.	Locke: Oxford Readings in Philosophy	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Chappell (Vere), Ed. - Locke: Oxford Readings in Philosophy	8%
Chappell (Vere), Ed.	Locke: Oxford Readings in Philosophy	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	8%
Chappell (Vere), Ed.	The Cambridge Companion to Locke	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Chappell (Vere), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Locke	4%
Conn (Christopher Hughes)	Locke on Essence and Identity	Book - By Subtopic	Conn (Christopher Hughes) - Locke on Essence and Identity	0%
Conn (Christopher Hughes)	Locke on Essence and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Conn (Christopher Hughes) - Locke on Essence and Identity, 2003	1%
deClercq (Raphael)	A criterion of diachronic identity based on Locke's Principle	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica 6.1 (2005), pp. 23-38	No
Dempsey (Liam P.)	A Compound Wholly Mortal: Locke and Newton on the Metaphysics of (Personal) Immortality	Paper - By Subtopic	British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:2 (2011): pp. 241-264	5%
Easwaran (Kenny), Fenton-Glynn (Luke), Hitchcock (Christopher), Velasco (Joel D.)	Updating on the Credences of Others: Disagreement, Agreement, and Synergy	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophers' Imprint, Vol. 16, No. 11, June 2016	3%
Foley (Richard)	Beliefs, Degrees of Belief, and the Lockean Thesis	Paper - By Subtopic	Huber (Franz) & Schmidt-Petri (Christoph) - Degrees of Belief, Part I	25%
French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard)	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol VIII, 1983) - Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard) - Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol VIII, 1983) - Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy	No
Hamilton (Andy)	A New Look At Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, 1995, Vol. 45 Issue 180, p332, 18p;	No
Harris (John)	Leibniz and Locke on Innate Ideas	Paper - By Subtopic	Tipton - Locke on Human Understanding - Selected Essays	No
Hershenov (David)	The Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation	Paper - By Subtopic	International Philosophical Quarterly. 47:2:186, June 2007, 181-85	17%
Huber (Franz) & Schmidt-Petri (Christoph), Eds.	Degrees of Belief	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Huber (Franz) & Schmidt-Petri (Christoph), Eds. - Degrees of Belief	6%
Jolley (Nicholas)	Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Jolley - Locke: His Philosophical Thought, OUP, 1999	Yes
Kaufman (Dan)	Locke on Individuation and the Corpuscular Basis of Kinds	Paper - By Subtopic	Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research	No
Kaufman (Dan)	Review of Christopher Hughes Conn: Locke on Essence and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 13, Number 2, May 2005, pp. 397-402(6)	No
Kitcher (Patricia)	Being Selfish about Your Future	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Nov., 1977), pp. 425-431	No
Leibniz (Gottfried), Remnant (Peter), Bennett (Jonathan)	New Essays on Human Understanding	Book - By Subtopic	Leibniz (Gottfried), Remnant (Peter), Bennett (Jonathan) - New Essays on Human Understanding	2%
Locke (John)	Of Identity and Diversity	Paper - Cited	Locke - Essay, Book 2, Chapter 27	Yes
Locke (John), A.M.	Locke on the Human Understanding	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	8%
Locke (John), Bennett (Jonathan)	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book II: Ideas	Paper - By Subtopic	Jonathan Bennett - Some Texts from Early Modern Philosophy	10%
Loptson (Peter)	Locke, Reid, and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Forum, Volume 35, Number 1, March 2004, pp. 51-63(13).	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Identity, Individuality, and Unity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy - 78, Issue 03, Jul 2003, pp 321-336	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke on Human Understanding	Book - By Subtopic	Lowe (E.J.) - Locke on Human Understanding	30%
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Action	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 6, 1995	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Ideas	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 2, 1995	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 5, 1995	Yes
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Introduction – Locke’s Life and Work	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 1, 1995	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Knowledge	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 8, 1995	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Language	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 7, 1995	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Perception	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 3, 1995	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Substance	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Locke on Human Understanding Chapter 4, 1995	No
Lucci (Diego)	Reconciling Locke’s Consciousness-Based Theory of Personal Identity and His Soteriology	Paper - By Subtopic	Locke Studies 20 (19th June 2020)	3%
Mackie (J.L.)	Identity and Diversity	Paper - By Subtopic	Mackie - Problems from Locke, Chapter 5	No
Mackie (J.L.)	Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Mackie - Problems from Locke, Chapter 6	No
Mackie (J.L.)	Problems from Locke	Book - By Subtopic	Mackie (J.L.) - Problems from Locke	No
Mattern (Ruth)	Moral Science and the Concept of a Person in Locke	Paper - By Subtopic	Chappell - Locke - Oxford Readings	No
Moreland (J.P.)	Locke's Parity Thesis about Thinking Matter: A Response to Williams	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies, 34, Issue 03, September 1998, pp 253-259	No
Myrdal (Peter)	Moral Identity and Love in Leibniz	Paper - By Subtopic	Birkbeck Research Seminar, 24/04/2008	47%
Noonan (Harold)	Leibniz, Butler and Reid	Paper - By Subtopic	Noonan - Personal Identity, 2003, Chapter 3	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Locke	Paper - By Subtopic	Noonan - Personal Identity, 2003, Chapter 2	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Locke on Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Noonan - Objects and Identity, 1980, Chapter 15	No
Noonan (Harold)	Locke on Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy, Vol. 53, No. 205 (Jul., 1978), pp. 343-351	No
Noonan (Harold)	Objects and Identity: An Examination of Relative Identity and its Consequences	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Noonan (Harold) - Objects and Identity: An Examination of Relative Identity and its Consequences	10%
Noonan (Harold)	Personal Identity	Book - Cited	Noonan (Harold) - Personal Identity	Yes
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Mind, Self and Person	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Mind, Self and Person	35%
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Philosophy - 78/305 (July 2003)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy - 78/305 (July 2003)	No
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Perry (John), Ed.	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Perry (John), Ed. - Personal Identity	Yes
Reid (Thomas)	Of Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Perry - Personal Identity	Yes
Reid (Thomas)	Of Mr. Locke's Account of Our Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Perry - Personal Identity	Yes
Rovane (Carol)	A Revisionary Proposal	Paper - By Subtopic	Rovane - The Bounds of Agency, Chapter 3, pp. 65-126	No
Rovane (Carol)	Lessons from Locke	Paper - By Subtopic	Rovane - The Bounds of Agency, Introduction to Part I, pp. 3-12	No
Rovane (Carol)	On the Need for Revision	Paper - By Subtopic	Rovane - The Bounds of Agency, Chapter 2, pp. 35-64	No
Rovane (Carol)	Preview of the Normative Analysis of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Rovane - The Bounds of Agency, Chapter 1, pp. 13-34	No
Rovane (Carol)	Self-Reference: The Radicalization of Locke	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 90.2, Feb. 1992, pp. 73-97	No
Rovane (Carol)	The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rovane (Carol) - The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics	No
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Persons, Animals, and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 162, No. 3 (Jun., 2008), pp. 313-324	8%
Strawson (Galen)	'The Secrets of All Hearts': Locke on Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Mind, Self and Person, 2015	11%
Strawson (Galen)	'Where our responsibility lies': Locke on personal identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Retrieved from Academia.edu	24%
Strickland (Lloyd)	Review - Forstrom: John Locke and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	British Journal for the History of Philosophy Volume 19, 2011 - Issue 4	17%
Thompson (Jon W.)	Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke	Paper - By Subtopic	American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 95, Issue 2, Spring 2021; Pages 165-194.	Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives	Paper - By Subtopic	Faraday Institute On-Line Seminar: January 30, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Yes
Tipton (I.C.)	Locke on Human Understanding - Selected Essays	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Tipton (I.C.) - Locke on Human Understanding - Selected Essays	No
Tipton (I.C.)	Locke on Human Understanding - Selected Essays	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	No
Todman (Theo)	Locke on Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Final Year Birkbeck BA Essay, 2003	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Locke	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Uzgalis (William)	Relative Identity and Locke's Principle of Individuation	Paper - By Subtopic	History of Philosophy Quarterly , Jul., 1990, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Jul., 1990), pp. 283-297	8%
Uzgalis (William)	The Immateriality of the Soul and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2012 (Spring 2014 Archive)	17%
Vollmer (F.)	Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	F. Vollmer, Agent Causality, Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 1999, Chapter 4	No
Winkler (Kenneth)	Locke on Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Chappell - Locke - Oxford Readings	Yes

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