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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity) Degrees of Personhood Nihilism Note Links Explanation Person
Plug Note Apologia Surprising Coin-Toss Sequences (and Bridge Hands) Thought Experiments Vagueness Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Aeon Papers - Summary Document: 2017-2018 Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution Blackburn - Has Kant Refuted Parfit? Brain Constitution View - Objections
Continuity Jen_071112 (Thesis Chapter Breakdown) Lowe - Locke on Identity Markosian - The Human Animal: Three Problems for Olson Nihilism
Olson - Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online Olson - What Are We? Animals Ontology Organisms PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Similarity Status: Personal Identity (2025 - December) Status: Priority Task List (2026 - February) Status: Summary (2025 - December) Surprising Coin-Toss Sequences (and Bridge Hands)
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3 Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time) Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)
Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Vagueness Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 What are We? Williams - The Self and the Future, 2

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author Title Medium Extra Links Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder) Metaphysical Vagueness Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Baker (Lynne Rudder) The Very Idea of Constitution Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Blackburn (Simon) Has Kant Refuted Parfit? Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Burgess (J.A.) The Sorites Paradox and Higher-Order Vagueness Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Burkeman (Oliver) The I in Mind: Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Cargile (James) The Sorites Paradox Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Cartwright (Helen Morris) On Two Arguments for the Indeterminacy of Personal Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Copeland (B. Jack) Vague Identity and Fuzzy Logic Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Doyle (Robert O.) N/A Author Medium Quality Abstract    
Everett (Theodore J.) A Simple Logic for Comparisons and Vagueness Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Farkas (Katalin) Indiscriminability and the Sameness of Appearance Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Forbes (Graeme) Two Solutions To Chisholm's Paradox Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Greenough (Patrick) Vagueness: A Minimal Theory Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3  
Grim (Patrick) The buried quantifier: an account of vagueness and the sorites Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Hawthorne (John) Vagueness and the Mind of God Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Heller (Mark) Preface: The Ontology of Physical Objects - Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter Paper High Quality Abstract    
Keefe (Rosanna) Context, Vagueness and the Sorites: Comments on Shapiro Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Lowe (E.J.) Locke: Identity Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Markosian (Ned) Three Problems for Olson's Account of Personal Identity Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Merricks (Trenton) Considerations in Favour of Eliminating Us? Paper High Quality Abstract 2  
Merricks (Trenton) Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Needle (Justin) Alphabetical Bibliography on Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Olson (Eric) Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Olson (Eric) Psychology and Personal Identity Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Olson (Eric) What Are We? Animals Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Price (Marjorie) Identity Through Time Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Quine (W.V.) What Price Bivalence? Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Raffman (Diana) How to understand contextualism about vagueness: reply to Stanley Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Robinson (Howard) Vagueness, Realism, Language and Thought Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Sainsbury (Mark) Vagueness: the paradox of the heap Paper Low Quality Abstract 2  
Salmon (Nathan) Modal Paradox: Parts and Counterparts, Points and Counterpoints Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Sanford (David H.) Nostalgia for the ordinary: comments on papers by Unger and Wheeler Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Schiffer (Stephen) Two Issues of Vagueness Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Shapiro (Stewart) A Procedural Solution to the Unexpected Hanging and the Sorites Paradoxes Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Shoemaker (David) Personal Identity and Immortality Paper High Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Smith (Martin) Why Throwing 92 Heads in a Row Is Not Surprising Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Smith (Nicholas J.J.) Vagueness as Closeness Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Sorensen (Roy) Vagueness, Measurement, and Blurriness Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Brain Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Constitution View - Objections Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Continuity Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Nihilism Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Ontology Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Organisms Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Personal Identity Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Similarity Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Vagueness Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - What Are We? Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Tye (Michael) Vague Objects Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Unger (Peter) I Do Not Exist Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Unger (Peter) Skepticism and Nihilism Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Unger (Peter) The Mental Problems of the Many Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3  
Unger (Peter) There are no Ordinary Things Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Unger (Peter) Why There Are No People Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Unger (Peter) Why We Really May Be Immaterial Souls Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Varzi (Achille) Cut-offs and their Neighbors Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Varzi (Achille) Vagueness and 'Vague': Rejoinder to Hull Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Vieru (Vlad) Vague Concepts and Sorites Paradoxes Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3  
Weiner (Matt) Deductive Closure and the Sorites Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Wheeler (Samuel C.) On That Which is Not Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Williams (Bernard) The Self and the Future Paper High Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Williams (J. Robbie G.) An Argument for the Many Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Williamson (Timothy) Many-Valued Logic and Degrees of Truth Paper Low Quality Abstract    
Williamson (Timothy) Stalnaker on the Interaction of Modality with Quantification and Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract    
Williamson (Timothy) The Early History of the Sorite Paradoxes Paper Low Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4  
Williamson (Timothy) Vagueness Book Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5  
Williamson (Timothy) Vagueness: Preface + Introduction Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4 Yes



References & Reading List

Author Title Medium Source Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder) Metaphysical Vagueness Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 6 No
Baker (Lynne Rudder) Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder) The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism 2%
Baker (Lynne Rudder) The Very Idea of Constitution Paper - Referencing Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 2, pp. 27-58 Yes
Burgess (J.A.) The Sorites Paradox and Higher-Order Vagueness Paper - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Synthese, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Dec., 1990), pp. 417-474 No
Burkeman (Oliver) The I in Mind: Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Guardian, Wednesday 21 January 2015, pp. 25-27 Yes
Cargile (James) The Sorites Paradox Paper - Cited Medium Quality Abstract The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Oct., 1969), pp. 193-202 No
Copeland (B. Jack) Vague Identity and Fuzzy Logic Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Journal of Philosophy 94.10, Oct. 1997, pp. 514-534 No
Diogenes Laertius, Galen & Cicero On the Sorites Paper - Cited Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader No
Doyle (Robert O.) The Sorites Puzzle of the Heap Paper - Cited Personal Website No
Eklund (Matti) Inconsistent Languages Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Mar., 2002), pp. 251-275 5%
Everett (Theodore J.) A Simple Logic for Comparisons and Vagueness Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Synthese, Vol. 123, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 263-278 No
Farkas (Katalin) Indiscriminability and the Sameness of Appearance Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106, Number 2, March 2006, pp. 205-225(21) No
Forbes (Graeme) Two Solutions To Chisholm's Paradox Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophical Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Sep., 1984), pp. 171-187 No
French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard) Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV, 1979) - Metaphysics Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard) - Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV, 1979) - Metaphysics 1%
Grim (Patrick) The buried quantifier: an account of vagueness and the sorites Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Analysis 65.2, April 2005, pp. 95-104(10) No
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) Aeon: T-Z Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: T-Z 21%
Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds. A Companion to the Philosophy of Language Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Hale (Bob) & Wright (Crispin), Eds. - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language 4%
Hawthorne (John) Vagueness and the Mind of God Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophical Studies; Jan2005, Vol. 122 Issue 1, p1-25, 25p No
Heller (Mark) Preface: The Ontology of Physical Objects - Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Heller - The Ontology of Physical Objects, Preface 33%
Heller (Mark) The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Heller (Mark) - The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter 4%
Heller (Mark) The Sorites Paradox Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Heller - The Ontology of Physical Objects, Chapter 3, pp. 68-109 No
Horgan (Terence) Robust Vagueness and the Forced-March Sorites Paradox Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 8, Logic and Language, 1994, pp. 159-188 No
Keefe (Rosanna) & Smith (Peter) Vagueness: A Reader Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Keefe (Rosanna) & Smith (Peter) - Vagueness: A Reader 13%
Keefe (Rosanna) & Smith (Peter) Vagueness: A Reader Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) Bibliographical details to be supplied 13%
MacDonald (Graham) Perception & Identity - Essays Presented to A J Ayer with His Replies Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract MacDonald (Graham) - Perception & Identity - Essays Presented to A J Ayer with His Replies 1%
Merricks (Trenton) Considerations in Favour of Eliminating Us? Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Merricks - Objects and Persons, 2001, Chapter 5 6%
Merricks (Trenton) Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Merricks - Objects and Persons, 2001, Chapter 2 5%
Merricks (Trenton) Objects and Persons Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons 7%
Needle (Justin) Alphabetical Bibliography on Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Website No
Olson (Eric) What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) High Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied Yes
Olson (Eric) What Are We? Animals Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.) Yes
Price (Marjorie) Identity Through Time Paper - Referencing Medium Quality Abstract Journal of Philosophy 74, No. 4, Apr., 1977, pp. 201-217 73%
Quine (W.V.) What Price Bivalence? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 78, No. 2, Feb., 1981, pp. 90-95 No
Robinson (Howard) Vagueness, Realism, Language and Thought Paper - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Monday 8 December 2008 Yes
Sainsbury (Mark) Paradoxes Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Sainsbury (Mark) - Paradoxes 8%
Sainsbury (Mark) Tolerating Vagueness Paper - By Subtopic Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 89 (1988 - 1989), pp. 33-48 No
Sainsbury (Mark) Vagueness: the paradox of the heap Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Sainsbury - Paradoxes, 2nd Edition, 1995, Chapter 2 No
Sainsbury (Mark) & Williamson (Timothy) Sorites Paper - By Subtopic Hale & Wright - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language No
Salmon (Nathan) Modal Paradox: Parts and Counterparts, Points and Counterpoints Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Salmon - Reference and Essence, 2005, Appendix 4 No
Salmon (Nathan) Reference and Essence Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Salmon (Nathan) - Reference and Essence 4%
Sanford (David H.) Nostalgia for the ordinary: comments on papers by Unger and Wheeler Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Synthese 71, 1979, pp. 175-184 No
Schiffer (Stephen) Two Issues of Vagueness Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract The Monist, Vol. 81, No. 2, Vagueness (April 1998), pp. 193-214 No
Smith (Martin) Why Throwing 92 Heads in a Row Is Not Surprising Paper - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Philosophers' Imprint, Vol. 17, No. 21, October 2017, pp. 1-8 Yes
Smith (Nicholas J.J.) Vagueness as Closeness Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83 (2005) 157-83 No
Sorensen (Roy) Vagueness, Measurement, and Blurriness Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Synthese, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Apr., 1988), pp. 45-82 No
Tappenden (Jamie) The Liar and Sorites Paradoxes: Toward a Unified Treatment Paper - By Subtopic Journal of Philosophy 90.11, Nov. 1993, pp. 551-577 No
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Sorites Paper - Referencing Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Travis (Charles) Vagueness, Observation, and Sorites Paper - By Subtopic Mind, Vol. 94, No. 375, Jul., 1985, pp. 345-366 No
Tye (Michael) Sorites Paradoxes and the Semantics of Vagueness Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 8, Logic and Language (1994), pp. 189-206 No
Tye (Michael) Vague Objects Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Mind, Vol. 99, No. 396, Oct., 1990, pp. 535-557 No
Unger (Peter) I Do Not Exist Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract MacDonald - Perception & Identity - Essays Presented to A J Ayer with His Replies, 1979 Yes
Unger (Peter) Skepticism and Nihilism Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Nous, Vol. 14, No. 4, Special Issue on Epistemology, Nov., 1980, pp. 517-545 No
Unger (Peter) There are no Ordinary Things Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Synthese 71, 1979, pp. 117-154 No
Unger (Peter) Why There Are No People Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV) - Metaphysics, 1979 5%
Varzi (Achille) Cut-offs and their Neighbors Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract J. C. Beall (ed.) Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 24-38 No
Vieru (Vlad) Vague Concepts and Sorites Paradoxes Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Website No
Weiner (Matt) Deductive Closure and the Sorites Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Website No
Wheeler (Samuel C.) On That Which is Not Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Synthese 71, 1979, pp. 155-173 No
Williams (J. Robbie G.) An Argument for the Many Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 106 (2006), pp. 411-419 No
Williamson (Timothy) Many-Valued Logic and Degrees of Truth Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 4 No
Williamson (Timothy) On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand? Paper - By Subtopic Aeon, 15 November, 2016 Yes
Williamson (Timothy) Stalnaker on the Interaction of Modality with Quantification and Identity Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Judith Jarvis Thomson & Alex Byrne (eds.), Content and Modality: Themes From the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker. Oxford University Press (2006) No
Williamson (Timothy) The Early History of the Sorite Paradoxes Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness, Chapter 1 No
Williamson (Timothy) Vagueness Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness 4%
Williamson (Timothy) Vagueness: Preface + Introduction Paper - Cited High Quality Abstract Williamson (Timothy) - Vagueness Yes
Wright (Crispin) Further Reflections on the Sorites Paradox Paper - By Subtopic Philosophical Topics, Vol. 15, No. 1, Philosophy of Language (Spring 1987), pp. 227-290 No
Wright (Crispin) Language-mastery and the Sorites Paradox Paper - By Subtopic Keefe - Vagueness: A Reader No



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