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Personal Identity

Unity of the Person

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

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. There’s a presumption in the philosophy of personal identity that the person² is a single well-defined individual. This is probably a hang-over from the days of Cartesian³ Dualism⁴ or when it was assumed that each of us had an indivisible Soul⁵. Nevertheless, this, depending on what the referent of person⁶ is supposed to be, can seem (and maybe is) quite sensible.
  2. However this unity has been disputed – for instance in the different interpretations of Multiple Personality Disorder (PMD⁷):-
     1. Supporters of the Psychological View⁸ argue that cases of MPD⁹ show that there can be multiple persons sharing the same body. This assumes that a person is some sort of well-integrated personality, no part of which is shut off from the rest (as is allegedly – though doubtfully – the case in MPD¹⁰). So – on this view – each of the multiple personalities¹¹ is deemed to be a separate person¹², and so (it is said) the person cannot be identical to the human being¹³ that houses it. Of course, any idea of integration ought to have gone out when Freud came in.
     2. However, animalists¹⁴ (and others) would argue that this is all a mis-description, and that all we have is a fragmented self¹⁵ (as is implied – maybe – in the current terminology – Dissociative Identity Disorder), or some other cognitive disorder¹⁶ within a single human animal¹⁷ (to which the title “person” is properly addressed, they say, though only in the sense of a phase sortal¹⁸).
  3. Lynne Rudder Baker¹⁹ – a proponent of the Constitution View²⁰ – (CV) claims (fairly plausibly) that each of us²¹ is individuated by a First Person Perspective²² (FPP). According to the CV, we – the persons – are separate from our bodies, but form a unity with them. In the case of your fission²³, she thinks (implausibly) that there would be a fact of the matter (somehow), as to which of the two fission products received your FPP²⁴. You would just know. Well, you wouldn’t, unless there was continuity of consciousness²⁵ throughout the process of fission, as I argue under the topic of the Reduplication Objections²⁶.
  4. This intuition that the person is a unity is referred to as the Unity Reaction in "Blackburn (Simon) - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?" and some other works.
  5. I suppose there could be some discussion of the doctrine of Divine Unity within a Trinitarian framework, but I’ll treat this as out of scope, and probably incoherent.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. This topic overlaps on various related ones which don’t have their own Notes, and so are covered by this one, and I’ve included items related to them in the reading lists below:-
     1. Psychological Unity, and
     2. Unity of Consciousness₂₇
     3. Unity of Bodies, and related matters
        
  2. Topics with their own Notes, and therefore excluded from the reading lists below include:-
     1. Cartesian Ego²⁸
     2. Commissurotomy²⁹
     3. Consciousness³⁰
     4. Counting Persons³¹
     5. Logic of Identity³²
     6. Multiple Personality Disorder³³
        

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Blackburn (Simon) - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?", 1997, Write-Up Note³⁴, Read = 156%
• For a Page of Links³⁵ to this Note, Click here. I’ve included “Unity Reaction” as a cognate, and also “Unity” as an attempt to get some ideas, though the “hits” are overwhelmingly irrelevant.
• There is no categorised reading list for this Note. I have relied on the above page of Links, and on material covered under the head of related Notes. The lists below are a first stab. I’ve ignored items specific to MPD.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read³⁶, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Identity: Introduction", 1991, Annotations
    2. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy", 1991, Annotations
    3. "Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity: Preface", 1993
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Constitution View of Human Persons", 2000, Write-Up Note³⁷, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Importance Of Being a Person", 2000, Write-Up Note³⁸, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution", 1999, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Blatti (Stephan) - Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self', by Raymond Martin and John Barresi", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Cassam (Quassim) - Kant and Reductionism", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Cooper (John) - Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Preface to the Second Printing", 1989
    10. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Dualist Views of Human Persons", 2006
    11. "Dainton (Barry) - From Phenomenal Selves to Hyper-Selves", 2015, External Link
    12. "Glover (Jonathan) - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity: Introduction", 1988
    13. "Hirsch (Eli) - A Sense of Unity", 1982
    14. "Hirsch (Eli) - The Basic Idea of Persistence", 1982
    15. "James (William), Marty (Martin E.) - The Varieties of Religious Experience", 1902/1985, Book, Footnote₃₉
    16. "Kazez (Jean) - Life Doesn't Begin at Conception", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Kingma (Elselijn) - Were You Part of Your Mother?", 2019, Annotations, External Link
    18. "Kurzweil (Ray) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) - Video - Closer to Truth: Raymond Kurzweil - What is the Nature of Personal Identity?", 2020, External Link
    19. "Murphy (Nancey) - I Cerebrate Myself: Is there a little man inside your brain?", 1999, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Nagel (Thomas) - Mind and Body", 1989
    21. "Olson (Eric) - Was Jekyll Hyde?", 2003, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Parfit (Derek) - Why Our Identity is Not What Matters", 1986
    23. "Perry (John) - The Problem of Personal Identity", 1975
    24. "Robinson (Howard) - Dualism (Stanford)", 2003-11, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    25. "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Introduction", 2014
    26. "Tye (Michael) - Consciousness and Persons - Introduction: Kinds of Unity and Kinds of Consciousness", 2003, Annotations
    27. "Wilkes (Kathleen) - Being in Two Minds", 2003
    28. "Wilkes (Kathleen) - The Coherence of Consciousness", 2003
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Allison (Henry) - Locke's Theory of Personal Identity: A Re-Examination", 1966
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'Unity of Consciousness' by Tim Bayne", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    3. "Bayne (Tim) - Self-Consciousness And The Unity Of Consciousness", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    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. "Blackburn (Simon) - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?", 1997, Write-Up Note⁴⁰, Read = 156%
    6. "Braine (David) - The First Refutation of Mechanism: Psychophysical Unity at the Level of Explanation and Reality", 1993
    7. "Braine (David) - The Human Being as an Animal: The Nature of Psychophysical Unity: Overview - The Sameness of Materialism and Dualism and the Need for a Holistic View Opposed to Both", 1993
    8. "Brooks (D.H.M.) - Strawson, Hume, and the Unity of Consciousness", 1985, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Cassam (Quassim) - The Unity Argument", 1999
    10. "Christman (John) - Narrative Unity as a Condition of Personhood", 2004, Footnote₄₁
    11. "Copp (David) - Social Unity and the Identity of Persons", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Crane (Tim) - The Unity of Unconsciousness", 2017, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    13. "Dainton (Barry) - Phenomenal Unity", 2008
    14. "De Monticelli (Roberta) - Constitution and Unity: Lynne Baker and the Unitarian Tradition", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%, Footnote₄₂
    15. "Gorham (Geoffrey) - Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts", 2002, Read = 7%
    16. "Harre (Rom) - Personal Being as Empirical Unity", 1991
    17. "Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) - On the Unity of the Parts of Organisms", 1997
    18. "Korsgaard (Christine) - Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit", 1996
    19. "Lowe (E.J.) - Identity and Unity", 2001
    20. "Mackie (J.L.) - Personal Identity", 1976
    21. "McInerney (Peter K.) - Person-Stages and Unity of Consciousness", 1985, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Metzinger (Thomas) - The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self", 2009, Read = 1%
    23. "Noller (Jorg) - A Transformative Account of Personal Identity", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
    24. "Noller (Jorg) - Person", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
    25. "Oaklander (L. Nathan) - Parfit, Circularity, and the Unity of Consciousness", 1987, Internal PDF Link
    26. "O'Brien (Gerard) & Opie (Jon) - The Disunity of Consciousness", 1998, Internal PDF Link
    27. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Tye's 'Consciousness and Persons - Unity and Identity'", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    28. "Peacocke (Christopher), Ed. - Objectivity, Simulation and the Unity of Consciousness", 1994, Book, Read = 2%
    29. "Reid (Mark D.) - A Case in Which Two Persons Exist in One Animal", 2016, Read = 42%
    30. "Reuscher (John) - Essays on the Metaphysical Foundations of Personal Identity: Preface/Introduction", 1981, Read = 133%
    31. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Personal Identity: a Materialist Account", 1984, Read = 22%
    32. "Snowdon (Paul) - Animalism and Some Philosophical Problems", 2014, Read = 17%
    33. "Snowdon (Paul) - Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness", 2014, Read = 7%
    34. "Snowdon (Paul) - Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness: Some Issues", 2016, Read = 33%
    35. "Tye (Michael) - Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity", 2003, Book, Read = 5%
    36. "Valberg (J.J.) - My Future: The Puzzle of Division", 2007
    37. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Unity and Thinking", 1990, No Abstract
    38. "Zemach (Eddy M.) - The Unity and Indivisibility of the Self: Three Short Stories and a Wittgensteinian Commentary", 1970

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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-holder⁴³.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 27:

• There seems to be a crossover between the Notes on Unity of Consciousness and Locke.

Footnote 39:

• Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification

Footnote 41:

• Maybe this should feature as well / instead under Narrative identity.

Footnote 42:

• Maybe this belongs to discussion of the Constitution View or Objections to it.

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker	Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons	Baker - The Importance Of Being a Person
Blackburn - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Cartesian Ego	Commissurotomy	Consciousness	Constitution View
Counting Persons	Dualism	First-Person Perspective	Fission	Human Animals
Human Beings	Locke	Logic of Identity	Multiple Personality Disorder	Narrative Identity
Note Links Explanation	Person	Personality	Phase Sortals	Plug Note Apologia
Psychological Continuity - Forward	Psychological View	Psychopathology	Reduplication Objections	Self
Souls	What are We?	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - Persons and Bodies	Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons, 2	Baker - The Importance Of Being a Person, 2	Blackburn - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Cartesian Ego
Fission	Lowe - Locke on Identity	Narrative Identity, 2	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5	Psychological Criterion
Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?), 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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?
Achtar (Ahmad)	Scriptural Reasoning at Heythrop: Abraham's Sacrifice of his son	Paper		Yes
Allison (Henry)	Locke's Theory of Personal Identity: A Re-Examination	Paper
Anscombe (G.E.M.)	Collected Philosophical Papers Volume 2: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind - Introduction	Paper		Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Identity: Introduction	Paper	2	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy	Paper		Yes
Baillie (James)	Problems in Personal Identity: Preface	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Unity of Consciousness' by Tim Bayne	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Importance Of Being a Person	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution	Paper	2	Yes
Bayne (Tim)	Self-Consciousness And The Unity Of Consciousness	Paper	2, 3
Belzer (Marvin)	Self-Conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Grip of the Unity Reaction	Paper	2, 3, 4
Blackburn (Simon)	Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Blatti (Stephan)	Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self', by Raymond Martin and John Barresi	Paper	2	Yes
Bourgeois (Warren)	Modern Philosophers' Views on Persons: The Renaissance and the Early Moderns	Paper		Yes
Brandon (Ed)	Review of David Lund's 'Persons, Souls and Death'	Paper		Yes
Braude (Stephen)	First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind	Book
Brentano (Franz)	Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint	Book	2, 3
Casati (Filippo) & Fujikawa (Naoya)	Review of 'One' by Graham Priest	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Cassam (Quassim)	Kant and Reductionism	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Cassam (Quassim)	The Unity Argument	Paper	2, 3
Cooper (John)	Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Preface to the Second Printing	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Dualist Views of Human Persons	Paper		Yes
Dainton (Barry)	From Phenomenal Selves to Hyper-Selves	Paper		Yes
Draper (John William)	History of the Conflict between Religion and Science	Paper	2
Flanagan (Owen)	The Science of the Mind	Paper
Glover (Jonathan)	I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Glover (Jonathan)	The Philosophy of Mind: Introduction	Paper
Greenwood (John)	Split-Brains and Singular Personhood	Paper	2
Haldane (John)	Naturalism and Mind	Paper		Yes
Hartshorne (Charles)	The Necessarily Existent	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Hershenov (David)	Four-Dimensional Animalism	Paper
Hick (John)	An Irenaean Theodicy	Paper	2	Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	A Sense of Unity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	Divided Minds	Paper
Hirsch (Eli)	Minds and Bodies: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	The Basic Idea of Persistence	Paper		Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	The Concept of Identity	Book	2, 3, 4	Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	The Persistence of Objects: Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
James (William), Marty (Martin E.)	The Varieties of Religious Experience	Paper	2	Yes
Kant (Immanuel)	The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God	Paper		Yes
Kazez (Jean)	Life Doesn't Begin at Conception	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Kingma (Elselijn)	Were You Part of Your Mother?	Paper		Yes
Kolak (Daniel)	I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics	Book
Kurzweil (Ray) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Video - Closer to Truth: Raymond Kurzweil - What is the Nature of Personal Identity?	Paper		Yes
Lowe (E.J.)	Locke: Identity	Paper		Yes
Mackie (J.L.)	Personal Identity	Paper	2
Marks (Charles)	Commissurotomy, Consciousness and Unity of Mind	Book	2	Yes
McInerney (Peter K.)	Person-Stages and Unity of Consciousness	Paper	2
Metzinger (Thomas)	The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self	Paper
Murphy (Nancey)	I Cerebrate Myself: Is there a little man inside your brain?	Paper		Yes
Nagel (Thomas)	Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Nagel (Thomas)	Mind and Body	Paper		Yes
Noller (Jorg)	A Transformative Account of Personal Identity	Paper
Noller (Jorg)	Person	Paper
Noonan (Harold), Ed.	Personal Identity (Readings)	Book
Oaklander (L. Nathan)	Parfit, Circularity, and the Unity of Consciousness	Paper
O'Brien (Gerard) & Opie (Jon)	The Disunity of Consciousness	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Was Jekyll Hyde?	Paper		Yes
Papineau (David)	Introducing Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters	Paper		Yes
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters (Excerpts)	Paper		Yes
Perry (John)	The Problem of Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Peterson (Michael), Hasker (William), Reichenbach (Bruce) & Basinger (David)	Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion	Book		Yes
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book
Radden (Jennifer)	Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality	Book	2
Reid (Mark D.)	A Case in Which Two Persons Exist in One Animal	Paper
Reuscher (John)	Essays on the Metaphysical Foundations of Personal Identity: Preface/Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Robinson (Howard)	Dualism (Stanford)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Rovelli (Carlo)	The Order of Time	Paper		Yes
Rovelli (Carlo)	The Order of Time	Book		Yes
Schechter (Elizabeth)	Self-Consciousness and 'Split' Brains: The Minds’ I (TOC & Chapter 1: The Unity Puzzle)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Schechtman (Marya)	Experience, Agency, and Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4
Shoemaker (David)	Personal Identity and Ethics	Paper		Yes
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Personal Identity: a Materialist Account	Paper
Simons (Peter)	Parts: A Study in Ontology - Concluding Remarks	Paper	2	Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Animalism and Some Philosophical Problems	Paper	2
Snowdon (Paul)	Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness	Paper	2
Snowdon (Paul)	Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness: Some Issues	Paper	2, 3
Snowdon (Paul)	Multiple Personality Disorder	Paper
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, Ourselves	Book
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Introduction	Paper	2	Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Descartes' arguments for dualism	Paper		Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Psychological continuity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cartesian Ego	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fission	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Narrative Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Criterion	Paper		Yes
Tye (Michael)	Consciousness and Persons - Introduction: Kinds of Unity and Kinds of Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Tye (Michael)	Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity	Book	2
Valberg (J.J.)	My Future: The Puzzle of Division	Paper
Wikipedia	Hylomorphism	Paper		Yes
Wiles (Maurice)	God's Action in Christ	Paper		Yes
Wilkes (Kathleen)	Being in Two Minds	Paper		Yes
Wilkes (Kathleen)	Fugues, Hypnosis, and Multiple Personality	Paper	2	Yes
Wilkes (Kathleen)	Real People: Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments	Book		Yes
Wilkes (Kathleen)	Real People: Preface	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Wilson (Jack)	Identity and Sortals: Why Relative Identity Is Self-Contradictory	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
Ayers (Michael R.)	Identity: Introduction	Paper - Cited	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Introduction to Part III, pp. 205-206	Yes
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	26%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy	Paper - Cited	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 25, pp. 278-292	Yes
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)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 4, 91-117	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Importance Of Being a Person	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 6, pp. 147-163	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution	Paper - Cited	Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 1999, Vol. XXIII Issue 1, p144, 22p	Yes
Blackburn (Simon)	Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Paper - Cited	Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 9	78%
Blatti (Stephan)	Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self', by Raymond Martin and John Barresi	Paper - Cited	Mind 117 (2008): 191–95	Yes
Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds.	Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	22%
Campbell (Joseph Keim), O'Rourke (Michael) & Silverstein (Harry S.)	Time and Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Campbell (Joseph Keim), O'Rourke (Michael) & Silverstein (Harry S.) - Time and Identity	10%
Cassam (Quassim)	Kant and Reductionism	Paper - Cited	Review of Metaphysics 43 (Sept. 1989), pp. 72-106	Yes
Cooper (John)	Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-dualism Debate	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	23%
Cooper (John)	Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Preface to the Second Printing	Paper - Cited	Cooper (John) - Body, Soul and Life Everlasting, 1989, Preface	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Dualist Views of Human Persons	Paper - Cited	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature, Chapter 1	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	13%
Dainton (Barry)	From Phenomenal Selves to Hyper-Selves	Paper - Cited	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Mind, Self and Person, 2015	Yes
Dancy (Jonathan), Ed.	Reading Parfit	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	17%
French (Peter) & Wettstein (Howard), Eds.	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol XXIII) - New Directions in Philosophy	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	9%
Glover (Jonathan)	I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	6%
Glover (Jonathan)	I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity: Introduction	Paper - Cited	Glover - I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity	Yes
Gorham (Geoffrey)	Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Campbell, O'Rourke & Silverstein - Time and Identity, 2005-10, II - Identity, Chapter 8	7%
Hirsch (Eli)	A Sense of Unity	Paper - Cited	Hirsch - The Concept of Identity, 1982, Chapter 8	Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	The Basic Idea of Persistence	Paper - Cited	Hirsch - The Concept of Identity, 1982, Chapter 3	Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	The Concept of Identity	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
James (William), Marty (Martin E.)	The Varieties of Religious Experience	Book - Cited	James (William), Marty (Martin E.) - The Varieties of Religious Experience	Yes
Kazez (Jean)	Life Doesn't Begin at Conception	Paper - Cited	The Philosophers' Magazine, 3rd November 2017	Yes
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Mind, Self and Person	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	35%
Peacocke (Christopher), Ed.	Objectivity, Simulation and the Unity of Consciousness	Book - Cited	Peacocke (Christopher), Ed. - Objectivity, Simulation and the Unity of Consciousness	2%
Reid (Mark D.)	A Case in Which Two Persons Exist in One Animal	Paper - Referencing	Blatti & Snowdon - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, 2016: Part III, Chapter 12, pp. 253-265	42%
Rovelli (Carlo)	The Order of Time	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Rovelli (Carlo)	The Order of Time	Paper - Referencing	Rovelli (Carlo) - The Order of Time	Yes
Tipton (I.C.)	Locke on Human Understanding - Selected Essays	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Unity of the Person	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes

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