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Status: Thesis Dashboard (2014: September)

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Below is a table showing the indicative progress on my Thesis1, broken down by Chapter. More detail is given in footnotes. For a definition of the Tasks, follow this Link2.

ChapterTask 01Task 02Task 03Task 04Task 05Task 06Task 07Task 08Task 09Task 10Task 11Task 12
Chapter 013 (Introduction)CompleteCompleteCompleteCompleteStartedCompleteDrafted4..Complete5..
Chapter 026 (What are We?)CompleteStarted7Complete8CompleteStartedComplete9Drafted..Drafted..
Chapter 0310 (What is a Person?)CompleteIteration 1Complete......Started..
Chapter 0411 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)CompleteStarted12Complete......Drafted..
Chapter 0513 (Persistence and Time)CompleteIteration 114Complete......Started..
Chapter 0615 (Animalism and Arguments for It)CompleteStarted16Complete......Started..
Chapter 0717 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)CompleteCompleteComplete......Started..
Chapter 0818 (Arguments against Animalism)CompleteCompleteComplete.........
Chapter 0919 (Arguments against the Constitution View)CompleteCompleteComplete.........
Chapter 1020 (Thought Experiments)CompleteComplete21Started22.........
Chapter 1123 (Resurrection)Iteration 124StartedComplete......Started..
Chapter 1225 (Conclusion)N/A26N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A


In-Page Footnotes

Footnote 2: The definitions of the 12 tasks are a follows:-
  1. Determine which Notes that I have written are relevant to this Chapter.
  2. Fill out any Note-place-holders with whatever's in my head!
  3. Use the reading lists associated with these Notes to establish a limited reading list for the Chapter.
  4. Review whatever I've written, in whatever format, on the items in the derived reading lists, and make necessary cosmetic changes in the process of evaluating the items.
  5. Segregate this reading list into:-
    … Higher versus lower priority,
    … Read versus unread,
    … Annotated (by hand) versus unannotated
    … Those with an Abstract or Note Write-up versus those without
  6. Cull items that are unlikely to be addressed in the next two years and list them as specifically excluded. I may pick up on these at a later stage of the project, but in the short term the culling process will be essential for making across-the-board progress.
  7. Determine why the residue are important and relevant - if they are - and briefly document the reasons.
  8. Migrate any Book or Paper Abstracts that I have written (as distinct from copied from elsewhere) to Write-Up Notes.
  9. If the Book or Paper is important enough, migrate any hand-written annotations to a Write-Up Note, and complete any important incomplete Write-Up Notes.
  10. Write and maintain a Chapter Summary, motivating and summarising the Chapter. Use this to ensure I don't get side-tracked.
  11. Incorporate the key points of Write-Up Notes into the Topic Notes.
  12. Incorporate the highest level thoughts from the Topic Notes into the Main Text of the Chapter.
Footnote 4: Needs reviewing as part of the "culling" process.

Footnote 5: This is just the aggregate of the Chapter Abstracts

Footnote 7: Beings (Click here for Note) and Souls (Click here for Note) are a bit skimpy and Selves (Click here for Note) is skeletal.

Footnote 8: Footnote 9: I probably need to be more rigorous in the culling of items on Selves and Souls.

Footnote 12: Relative Identity (Click here for Note), Vague Identity (Click here for Note), Contingent Identity (Click here for Note), Occasional Identity (Click here for Note) and Substance (Click here for Note) are seletal; Indeterminate Identity needs a Note.

Footnote 14: Time (Click here for Note), Persistence (Click here for Note) and Persistence Criteria (Click here for Note) are all rather skimpy.

Footnote 16: Thinking Animal Argument (Click here for Note) is skeletal and "Other Arguments For Animalism" requires a Note.

Footnote 21: Siliconisation (Click here for Note) is probably Unger's idea, but I seem to have lost the reference.

Footnote 22: Footnote 24: The list of Notes (including some write-ups) is a bit of a mess and needs reviewing.

Footnote 26: This Chapter is non-standard.

Live Version of this Archived Note

Date Length Title
14/04/2026 04:37:55 20233 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2026: April)

Earlier Version of this Note

Date Length Title
23/07/2014 23:08:10 11712 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2014: July)

Table of the 7 Later Versions of this Note

Date Length Title
10/01/2023 23:35:31 20217 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2022: December)
03/07/2022 01:29:17 20218 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2022: June)
01/10/2021 13:17:46 20301 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2021: September)
02/04/2021 18:43:12 20272 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2021: March)
05/04/2018 10:48:00 12595 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2018: March)
05/04/2016 23:19:41 12346 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2016: March)
02/07/2015 23:12:29 12473 Status: Thesis Dashboard (2015: June)


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07/10/2014 17:39:50 1024 (Status: Thesis Dashboard (2014: September)) Status: Summary (2026 - March)


Summary of Notes Links from this Page

Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction) Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?) Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It) Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism) Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View) Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)
Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection) Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion) Thesis - Outline    

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Summary of Note Links to this Page

Status: Summary Task List (2014: July - September) Status: Summary Task List (2014: October - December) Status: Summary Task List (2015: January - March) Status: Web-Tools (2014 - September) Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction), 2, 3
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3 Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2 Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2 Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2
Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2 Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism), 2, 3 Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View) Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2 Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection), 2, 3
Website - Outstanding Developments (2014 - September)        

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