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Personal Identity

Reductionism

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

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. Reductionism in the field of Personal Identity has much the same meaning as elsewhere in philosophy, namely:-
     1. Explanatory Reduction: explaining PID in terms of simpler concepts², or
     2. Ontological Reduction: saying that persons³ are “really” other things, or are made up of or constituted by⁴ other things.
  2. This contrasts with the Simple View⁵, which denies either of these options.
  3. Currently, my thoughts on the matter are derived from:-
     1. "Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Reductionism", and
     2. "Garrett (Brian) - Animalism and Reductionism",
        but I will add to the topic further over time.
        
  4. From my perspective, the interesting element is Garrett’s consideration of Phase Sortals⁶.
  5. "Cassam (Quassim) - Parfit on Persons" claims that Animalism⁷ is a non-reductionist account of PID – indeed, the best one!
  6. Derek Parfit is credited with introducing the term “Reductionism” into the field of Personal Identity from elsewhere in philosophy.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. Of course, Reductionism in the field of Personal Identity is a subset of Reductionism generally in science, and is open – invalidly in my view – to the same “nothing buttery” objections. I’ve included those items I’ve actually read that fall within this wider remit, but not (much) otherwise.
  2. An area that might be included under this heading is the question of reductionism in the philosophy of mind₈ – whether (for instance) mental events are reducible to physical events. I believe and assume that they are, and anything I have to say on the topic will be covered under my Note on Dualism⁹.
  3. A number of items on the reading list are responses to Parfit’s ideas. I’ve not included many of his own writings under this head – see my Note on Parfit¹⁰ for these

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Cassam (Quassim) - Parfit on Persons", 1992, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read
  2. "Garrett (Brian) - Animalism and Reductionism", 1998, Annotations, Read
  3. "Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Reductionism", 1991, Write-Up Note¹¹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read
• For a page of Links¹² to this Note, Click here. There were too many links to perform an updating run, so I’ve just eyeballed the results and selected a few titles.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹³, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Alexander (Denis) - Review of 'Why Us?' by James Le Fanu", 2010
    2. "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity: Preface", 1993
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?' by Nancey Murphy", 2006, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Campbell (John) - The First Person: The Reductionist View of the Self", 1995
    5. "Cassam (Quassim) - Kant and Reductionism", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Cassam (Quassim) - Parfit on Persons", 1992, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Cassam (Quassim) - Reductionism and First-Person Thinking", 1992, Annotations, No Abstract
    8. "Catterson (Troy) - Introduction to Synthese Special Issue on Personal Identity", 2008, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Coliva (Annalisa) - Review of Gasser & Stefan, Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?", 2013, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Soul, Body and Survival: Introduction - Soul or Body?", 2001
    11. "Crane (Tim) - Body", 2001, Write-Up Note¹⁴
    12. "Doepke (Frederick) - Spatially Coinciding Objects", 1982
    13. "Garrett (Brian) - Animalism and Reductionism", 1998, Annotations
    14. "Garrett (Brian) - Parfit and 'What Matters'", 1998
    15. "Garrett (Brian) - Personal Identity and Reductionism", 1991, Write-Up Note¹⁵, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Garrett (Brian) - Persons", 1998, 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Hawking (Stephen) - The Objections of an Unashamed Reductionist", 1997
    18. "Hempel (Carl) - Theoretical Reduction", 1966
    19. "Hempel (Carl) - Theories and Theoretical Explanation", 1966
    20. "Hofstadter (Douglas) - Reductionism and religion", 1980
    21. "Lizza (John) - Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death: Preface", 2006
    22. "Markosian (Ned) - Time", 2002-14, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Nagel (Thomas) - Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness", 1979, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Nagel (Thomas) - The View from Nowhere: Introduction", 1989
    25. "Nagel (Thomas) - What is it Like to Be a Bat?", 1974, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Natsoulas (Thomas) - The Primary Source of Intentionality", 1980
    27. "Noonan (Harold) - Identity and Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
    28. "Oderberg (David) - Johnston on Human Beings", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    29. "O'Hear (Anthony) - Scientific Reductions", 1989
    30. "Papineau (David) - Introducing Consciousness", 2000, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Parfit (Derek) - Nagel's Brain", 1986
    32. "Parfit (Derek) - Personal Identity and Morality", 1986
    33. "Parfit (Derek) - Personal Identity and Rationality", 1986
    34. "Parfit (Derek) - The Closest Continuer Schema", 1984
    35. "Peacocke (Arthur) & Gillett (Grant) - Persons and Personality: Introduction", 1987
    36. "Pollock (John L.) - How to Build a Person: Preface", 1989
    37. "Quine (W.V.) - Two Dogmas of Empiricism", 1980, External Link
    38. "Roache (Rebecca) - A Defence of Quasi-Memory", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    39. "Searle (John) - Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness", 1992
    40. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics", 2005-12, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    41. "Shoemaker (David) - The Death of Derek Parfit", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    42. "Snowdon (Paul) - Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem", 2015, External Link
    43. "Sorensen (Roy) - Thought Experiments: Introduction", 1992
    44. "Strawson (Peter) - Review of Minds, Brains and People by T. E. Wilkerson", 1974, Internal PDF Link
    45. "Tye (Michael) - Qualia", 1997-2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    46. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Précis of Material Beings", 1993, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    47. "Wiggins (David) - On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time", 1968, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    48. "Wiggins (David) - Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Annotations
    49. "Wiggins (David) - The Concern to Survive", 1987, Annotations
    50. "Wiggins (David) - The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value", 1987, Annotations
    51. "Wilkerson (T.E.) - Two Kinds of Metaphysics", 1974
    52. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Video: Does God Know Our First-Person Perspectives?", 2015
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Baggini (Julian) - Psychological Reductionism About Persons: A Critical Development", 1996, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
    2. "Baillie (James) - Aspects of Non-Reductionism", 1993
    3. "Behrendt (Kathy) - The New Neo-Kantian And Reductionist Debate", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    4. "Belzer (Marvin) - Self-Conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Grip of the Unity Reaction", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    5. "Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.) - Reductionism", 2003
    6. "Berglund (Stefan) - Identity and Reduction", 1995
    7. "Berglund (Stefan) - Problems of Reductive Personalism", 1995
    8. "Berglund (Stefan) - The Non-Reductive Personalist View", 1995
    9. "Berglund (Stefan) - Varieties of Reductive Personalism", 1995
    10. "Cassam (Quassim) - Reductionism", 1999, Read = 3%
    11. "Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) - Reductionism about Persons; And What Matters", 1998, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    12. "Dainton (Barry) - The Phenomenal Self: Appendix - Reductionism", 2008, Read = 22%
    13. "DiGiovanna (James) - Literally Like a Different Person: Context and Concern in Personal Identity", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    14. "Franklin (Alexander) - Can Multiple Realisation be Explained", 2021, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    15. "Franks Davis (Caroline) - The Reductionist Challenge", 1989
    16. "Garrett (Brian) - Non-Reductionism and John Searle's The Rediscovery of the Mind", 1995, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Hasker (William) - How Not To Be A Reductivist", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    18. "Johnston (Mark) - Reasons and Reductionism", 1992, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    19. "Jubien (Michael) - Essential Properties and Reduction", 1970, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Jurjako (Marko) - Agency and Reductionism about the Self", 2017, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    21. "Kim (Jaegwon) - Reduction and Reductionism: A New Look", 2000, Read = 7%
    22. "Midgley (Mary) - Do we ever really act?", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Midgley (Mary) - Reductivism, Fatalism and Sociobiology", 1984, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Mills (Eugene) - Dividing Without Reducing: Bodily Fission and Personal Identity", 1993
    25. "Murphy (Nancey) - Did my neurons make me do it? Reductionism, morality and the problem of free will", 2006, Read = 18%
    26. "Murphy (Nancey) - Non-Reductive Physicalism: Philosophical Issues", 1998, Read = 6%
    27. "Nagel (Ernest) - The Reduction of Theories", 1961, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    28. "Perrett (Roy W.) - Personal Identity, Minimalism, And Madhyamaka", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    29. "Poole (Michael) - Reductionism: Help or Hindrance in Science and Religion?", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Rose (Steven) - Lifelines - Biology, Freedom, Determinism", 1998, Book, Read = 1%, Note: Chapters 4 & 10.
    31. "Rose (Steven) - Précis of 'Lifelines: Biology, Freedom, Determinism'", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
    32. "Rovane (Carol) - Branching Self-Consciousness", 1990, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Schaffer (Jonathan) - Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism", 2007, Read = 8%
    34. "Shoemaker (David) - The Irrelevance/Incoherence of Non-Reductivism About Personal Identity", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    35. "Siderits (Mark) - Buddhist Reductionism", 1997, Internal PDF Link
    36. "Sklar (Lawrence) - The Reduction (?) of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    37. "Sklar (Lawrence) - Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and the Complexity of Reductions", 1974, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    38. "Sklar (Lawrence) - Types of Inter-Theoretic Reduction", 1967, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    39. "Slors (Marc) - Non-Reductionism, Epiphenominalism, and Eliminitivism: The Relevance of the Personal Identity Debate", 1997
    40. "Wimsatt (William) - Emergence as Non-Aggregativity and the Biases of Reductionisms", 2003, Internal PDF Link
• For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link¹⁶. 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-holder¹⁷.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 8:

• See, for instance, the references to reductionism in
  → "Corcoran (Kevin) - Soul, Body and Survival: Introduction - Soul or Body?", and
  → "Crane (Tim) - Body".

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Reductionism	Research - Proposal

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Concepts	Constitution View	Crane - Interaction Between Mind and Body
Dualism	Garrett - Personal Identity and Reductionism	Note Links Explanation	Parfit	Person
Phase Sortals	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage	Plug Note Apologia	Simple View	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - Personal Identity Over Time	Baker - Persons in the Material World, 2, 3	Johnston - Human Beings	Naturalism
Olson - Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online	Olson - What Are We? Animals	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?), 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)
Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4	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?
Alexander (Denis)	Review of 'Why Us?' by James Le Fanu	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baillie (James)	Problems in Personal Identity: Preface	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?' by Nancey Murphy	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Yes
Campbell (John)	The First Person: The Reductionist View of the Self	Paper		Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	Kant and Reductionism	Paper		Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	Parfit on Persons	Paper		Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	Reductionism	Paper
Catterson (Troy)	Introduction to Synthese Special Issue on Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace)	Reductionism about Persons; And What Matters	Paper
Coliva (Annalisa)	Review of Gasser & Stefan, Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?	Paper	2	Yes
Cooper (Wesley)	Parfit, Heroic Death, and Symbolic Utility	Paper
Corcoran (Kevin)	Soul, Body and Survival: Introduction - Soul or Body?	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Crane (Tim)	N/A	Author
Crane (Tim)	Body	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Dainton (Barry)	The Phenomenal Self: Appendix - Reductionism	Paper
Doepke (Frederick)	Spatially Coinciding Objects	Paper		Yes
Ferner (Adam)	Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity	Paper
Fodor (Jerry)	Meaning and the World Order	Paper	2	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Parfit and 'What Matters'	Paper		Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Personal Identity and Reductionism	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Persons	Paper	2	Yes
Gillett (Grant)	Young Human Beings: Metaphysics and Ethics	Paper		Yes
Goodman (Charles)	Vaibhāṣika Metaphoricalism	Paper
Hempel (Carl)	Theoretical Reduction	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Hempel (Carl)	Theories and Theoretical Explanation	Paper		Yes
Hofstadter (Douglas)	Reductionism and religion	Paper	2	Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Kind (Amy)	The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Special Concern for the Future	Paper	2, 3
Levy (Steven)	Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation	Paper
Lizza (John)	Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death: Preface	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Markosian (Ned)	Time	Paper		Yes
Nagel (Thomas)	Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Nagel (Thomas)	The View from Nowhere: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Nagel (Thomas)	What is it Like to Be a Bat?	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Natsoulas (Thomas)	The Primary Source of Intentionality	Paper		Yes
Noble (Denis)	The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes	Book
Noonan (Harold)	Identity and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Oderberg (David)	Johnston on Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper		Yes
Papineau (David)	Physicalism and the Human Sciences	Paper	2, 3
Parfit (Derek)	Nagel's Brain	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Personal Identity and Morality	Paper	2	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Personal Identity and Rationality	Paper		Yes
Parfit (Derek)	The Closest Continuer Schema	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Peacocke (Arthur) & Gillett (Grant)	Persons and Personality: Introduction	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Perrett (Roy W.)	Personal Identity, Minimalism, And Madhyamaka	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Pollock (John L.)	How to Build a Person: Preface	Paper		Yes
Quine (W.V.)	Two Dogmas of Empiricism	Paper		Yes
Roache (Rebecca)	A Defence of Quasi-Memory	Paper		Yes
Ross (Don) & Spurrett (David)	What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: A defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists	Paper	2, 3
Rovane (Carol)	Branching Self-Consciousness	Paper
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Ethics	Paper		Yes
Shoemaker (David)	The Death of Derek Parfit	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Siderits (Mark)	Buddhist Reductionism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Snowdon (Paul)	Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem	Paper	2	Yes
Sorensen (Roy)	Thought Experiments: Introduction	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Strawson (Peter)	Review of Minds, Brains and People by T. E. Wilkerson	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Naturalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Tye (Michael)	Qualia	Paper	2	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Précis of Material Beings	Paper	2	Yes
Wiggins (David)	On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed	Paper		Yes
Wiggins (David)	The Concern to Survive	Paper		Yes
Wiggins (David)	The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value	Paper		Yes
Wilkerson (T.E.)	Two Kinds of Metaphysics	Paper	2	Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Video: Does God Know Our First-Person Perspectives?	Paper	2, 3	Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Alexander (Denis)	Review of 'Why Us?' by James Le Fanu	Paper - Cited	Alexander (Denis) - Science and Christian Belief 22.1 (April 2010)	Yes
Alexander (Denis)	Science and Christian Belief 22.1 (April 2010)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	45%
Anderson (Susan Leigh)	Chisholm's Argument to Show that a Person Cannot be an Ens Successivum	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 37 (1980), pp. 111-113	No
Baggini (Julian)	Psychological Reductionism About Persons: A Critical Development	Paper - Cited	PhD thesis, University College London, 1996	1%
Baillie (James)	Aspects of Non-Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic	Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity, 1993, Chapter 3	No
Baillie (James)	Problems in Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity	45%
Baillie (James)	Problems in Personal Identity	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	45%
Baillie (James)	Problems in Personal Identity: Preface	Paper - Cited	Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity, 1993, Preface	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?' by Nancey Murphy	Paper - Cited	Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006.08.03 (August 2006)	Yes
Behrendt (Kathy)	The New Neo-Kantian And Reductionist Debate	Paper - By Subtopic	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 84, Number 4, December 2003, pp. 331-350(20).	6%
Belzer (Marvin)	Self-Conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Grip of the Unity Reaction	Paper - By Subtopic	Paul, Miller & Paul - Personal Identity, 2005	3%
Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.)	Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.) - Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience	1%
Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.)	Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic	Bennett & Hacker - Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, Chapter 13	No
Berglund (Stefan)	Human and Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Berglund (Stefan) - Human and Personal Identity	1%
Berglund (Stefan)	Identity and Reduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Berglund - Human and Personal Identity (PhD Dissertation, Lund University), Chapter 2, 1995, pp. 20-43	No
Berglund (Stefan)	Problems of Reductive Personalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Berglund - Human and Personal Identity (PhD Dissertation, Lund University), Chapter 6, 1995, pp. 128-158	No
Berglund (Stefan)	The Non-Reductive Personalist View	Paper - By Subtopic	Berglund - Human and Personal Identity (PhD Dissertation, Lund University), Chapter 4, 1995, pp. 61-83	No
Berglund (Stefan)	Varieties of Reductive Personalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Berglund - Human and Personal Identity (PhD Dissertation, Lund University), Chapter 5, 1995, pp. 84-127	No
Boden (Margaret)	Artificial Intelligence and Human Dignity	Paper - By Subtopic	Cornwell - Nature's Imagination - A Debate on the Future of Science	No
Bourgeois (Warren)	Contemporary Philosophers' Views on Persons: Parfit: The Oxford Buddhist	Paper - By Subtopic	Bourgeois - Persons: What Philosophers Say about You, 2003, Chapter 13	5%
Bourgeois (Warren)	Persons: What Philosophers Say about You	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bourgeois (Warren) - Persons: What Philosophers Say about You	15%
Brown (Warren), Murphy (Nancey) & Malony (H. Newton), Eds.	Whatever Happened to the Soul: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Brown (Warren), Murphy (Nancey) & Malony (H. Newton), Eds. - Whatever Happened to the Soul: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature	4%
Campbell (John)	Past, Space and Self	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	7%
Campbell (John)	The First Person: The Reductionist View of the Self	Paper - Cited	Campbell - Past, Space and Self, Chapter 5	Yes
Cartwright (Helen Morris)	On Two Arguments for the Indeterminacy of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese 95, 1993, 241-273	4%
Cassam (Quassim)	Kant and Reductionism	Paper - Cited	Review of Metaphysics 43 (Sept. 1989), pp. 72-106	Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	Parfit on Persons	Paper - Cited	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93: 17-37, 1992	Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic	Self and World, June 1999, Chapter 5	3%
Cassam (Quassim)	Reductionism and First-Person Thinking	Paper - By Subtopic	Reduction, Explanation, and Realism , ed. David Charles and Kathleen Lennon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 362-380.	Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	Self and World	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Cassam (Quassim) - Self and World	0%
Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace)	Reductionism about Persons; And What Matters	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 98 (1998), pp. 41-57	7%
Corcoran (Kevin)	Soul, Body and Survival: Introduction - Soul or Body?	Paper - Cited	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Introduction	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed.	Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	99%
Cornwell (John), Ed.	Nature's Imagination - A Debate on the Future of Science	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Cornwell (John), Ed. - Nature's Imagination - A Debate on the Future of Science	No
Crane (Tim)	Body	Paper - Cited	Crane - Elements of Mind - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, 2001, Chapter 2	Yes
Crane (Tim)	Elements of Mind - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Dancy (Jonathan), Ed.	Reading Parfit	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Dancy (Jonathan), Ed. - Reading Parfit	17%
DiGiovanna (James)	Literally Like a Different Person: Context and Concern in Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	The Southern Journal of Philosophy Volume53, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 387-404	7%
Dupre (John)	The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science	Book - By Subtopic	Dupre (John) - The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science	No
Foster (John)	The Immaterial Self: Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Foster (John) - The Immaterial Self: Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind	0%
Foster (John)	Token-Identity and Metaphysical Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic	Foster (John) - The Immaterial Self: Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind, 1991, Chapter 5	No
Franklin (Alexander)	Can Multiple Realisation be Explained	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy 96, 2021, pp. 21-42	6%
Garrett (Brian)	Animalism and Reductionism	Paper - Cited	Garrett - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness, 1998, Chapter 2	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Personal Identity and Reductionism	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51, No. 2, Jun., 1991, pp. 361-373	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Personal Identity and Self-consciousness	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Hasker (William)	How Not To Be A Reductivist	Paper - By Subtopic	Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, 2.3.5, October 2003	7%
Hawking (Stephen)	The Objections of an Unashamed Reductionist	Paper - By Subtopic	Penrose - The Large, the Small and the Human Mind, Chapter 7	Yes
Hempel (Carl)	Philosophy of Natural Science	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hempel (Carl) - Philosophy of Natural Science	Yes
Hempel (Carl)	Theoretical Reduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Hempel - Philosophy of Natural Science, 1966, Chapter 8	Yes
Hofstadter (Douglas)	Reductionism and religion	Paper - By Subtopic	Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 3 - Issue 3 - September 1980, pp. 433-434	Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Reasons and Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review, July 1992; 101(3): 589-618	8%
Jubien (Michael)	Essential Properties and Reduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, Dec 1970; 67: 1024-1026	No
Jurjako (Marko)	Agency and Reductionism about the Self	Paper - By Subtopic	Boran Berčić (Editor) - Perspectives on the Self, July 2017, pp. 255-284	4%
Kim (Jaegwon)	Mind in a Physical World - An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Kim (Jaegwon) - Mind in a Physical World - An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation	5%
Kim (Jaegwon)	Reduction and Reductionism: A New Look	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Mind in a Physical World - An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation, 2000, Chapter 4	7%
Koch (Christof)	Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist	Book - By Subtopic	Koch (Christof) - Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist	Yes
McDowell (John)	Reductionism and the First Person	Paper - By Subtopic	Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 11	Yes
Midgley (Mary)	Do we ever really act?	Paper - By Subtopic	The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects, ed. D. Rees and S. Rose. CUP 2004	No
Mills (Eugene)	Dividing Without Reducing: Bodily Fission and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind 102.405, Jan. 1993, pp. 37-51	No
Murphy (Nancey)	Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Murphy (Nancey) - Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?	12%
Murphy (Nancey)	Did my neurons make me do it? Reductionism, morality and the problem of free will	Paper - By Subtopic	Murphy (Nancey) - Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?	18%
Murphy (Nancey)	Non-Reductive Physicalism: Philosophical Issues	Paper - By Subtopic	Brown (Warren), Murphy (Nancey) & Malony (H. Newton) - Whatever Happened to the Soul: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature, 1998	6%
Nagel (Ernest)	Structure of Science - Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Nagel (Ernest) - Structure of Science - Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation	0%
Nagel (Ernest)	The Reduction of Theories	Paper - By Subtopic	Chapter 11 of "The Stucture of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation", 1961	4%
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Philosophy - 81/316 (April 2006)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy - 81/316 (April 2006)	18%
Papineau (David)	Physicalism and the Human Sciences	Paper - By Subtopic	C Mantzavinos (ed) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice, 2009	50%
Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey), Eds.	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey), Eds. - Personal Identity	0%
Paul (L.A.)	Constitutive Overdetermination	Paper - By Subtopic	Topics in Contemporary Philosophy vol. 4: Causation and Explanation, MIT Press. Forthcoming Summer 2005.	No
Penelhum (Terence)	Personal Identity, Memory, and Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 56, No. 22, (Oct., 1959), pp. 882-903	No
Penrose (Roger)	The Large, the Small and the Human Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Penrose (Roger) - The Large, the Small and the Human Mind	5%
Pereboom (Derek) & Kornblith (Hilary)	The Metaphysics of Irreducibility	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Aug., 1991), pp. 125-145	6%
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Petrus (Klaus), Ed. - On Human Persons	73%
Plantinga (Alvin)	Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 1, Metaphysics (1987), pp. 189-231	No
Poole (Michael)	Reductionism: Help or Hindrance in Science and Religion?	Paper - By Subtopic	Faraday Institute Website, Faraday Paper 6; April 2007	No
Roache (Rebecca)	A Defence of Quasi-Memory	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy - 81/316 (April 2006), pp. 323-356	Yes
Rose (Steven)	Lifelines - Biology, Freedom, Determinism	Book - Cited	Rose (Steven) - Lifelines - Biology, Freedom, Determinism	1%
Ross (Don) & Spurrett (David)	What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: A defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists	Paper - By Subtopic	Behavioral And Brain Sciences (2004) 27, 603–647	8%
Rovane (Carol)	Branching Self-Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review 99.3, July 1990, pp. 355-395	No
Schroer (Robert)	Reductionism in Personal Identity and the Phenomenological Sense of Being a Temporally Extended Self	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4):339-356 (2013)	6%
Searle (John)	Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Searle - The Rediscovery of the Mind, 1992, Chapter 5	Yes
Searle (John)	The Rediscovery of the Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Searle (John) - The Rediscovery of the Mind	15%
Searle (John), Etc.	Minds, Brains, and Programs	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Searle (John), Etc. - Minds, Brains, and Programs	93%
Shoemaker (David)	The Irrelevance/Incoherence of Non-Reductivism About Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philo, Fall-Winter 2002	4%
Siderits (Mark)	Buddhist Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy East & West, Oct97, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p455, 24p;	No
Sklar (Lawrence)	The Reduction (?) of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 95, No. 1/2, Reduction and Emergence "The Thirty-Third Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy" (Aug., 1999), pp. 187-202	7%
Sklar (Lawrence)	Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and the Complexity of Reductions	Paper - By Subtopic	PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1974, (1974), pp. 15-32	7%
Sklar (Lawrence)	Types of Inter-Theoretic Reduction	Paper - By Subtopic	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Aug., 1967), pp. 109-124	7%
Sosa (Ernest) & Tooley (Michael), Eds.	Causation	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sosa (Ernest) & Tooley (Michael), Eds. - Causation	19%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reductionism	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Tooley (Michael)	Causation: Reductionism Versus Realism	Paper - By Subtopic	Sosa & Tooby - Causation	No
Trettin (Kathe)	Persons and Other Trope Complexes. Reflections on Ontology and Normativity	Paper - By Subtopic	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Wimsatt (William)	Emergence as Non-Aggregativity and the Biases of Reductionisms	Paper - By Subtopic	Foundations of Science; Sep2003, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p269-297, 29p	No
Wright (Crispin)	Frege's Conception of Numbers As Objects	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Wright (Crispin) - Frege's Conception of Numbers As Objects	No
Wright (Crispin)	The Context Principle	Paper - By Subtopic	Wright - Frege's Conception of Numbers As Objects, 1983, Chapter 1	No

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