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Personal Identity
Plants
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References
- Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
- For a Page of Links5 to this Note, Click here.
- Works on this topic that I’ve actually read6, include the following:-
- Aeon:
- "Aeon - Video - The secret language of trees", 2021, External Link
- General:
- "Gagliano (Monica) - The mind of plants: Thinking the unthinkable", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - Human Persons – A Process View", 2019, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Meincke (Anne Sophie) - Review of Chauncey Maher's 'Plant Minds'", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- A further reading list might start with:-
- General:
- "Calvo (Paco) - The philosophy of plant neurobiology: a manifesto", 2016, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Calvo (Paco) - What Is It Like to Be a Plant?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Segundo-Ortin (Miguel), Etc - Plant Cognition - A Methodological Primer: Theories, Methods and Challenges", External Link, Read = 33%
- "Trewavas (Anthony) - Aspects of Plant Intelligence", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Trewavas (Anthony) - Plant intelligence: Mindless mastery", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- 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:-
- Read: No items to list.
- Further Reading: No items to list.
- This is mostly a place-holder7.
Table of the Previous 5 Versions of this Note:
| Date |
Length |
Title |
| 06/07/2023 00:43:12 |
1939 |
Plants |
| 20/09/2022 11:24:00 |
1781 |
Plants |
| 07/05/2022 00:44:38 |
1400 |
Plants |
| 16/02/2021 01:00:29 |
1235 |
Plants |
| 20/10/2020 19:32:10 |
835 |
Plants |
| Note last updated |
Reading List for this Topic |
Parent Topic |
| 02/03/2026 07:28:29 |
None available |
Organisms |
Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note
To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.
Summary of Notes Citing This Note
| Aeon Papers |
Animals |
Biological Criterion, 2 |
Blackburn - Has Kant Refuted Parfit? |
Daniel Dennett – Conditions of Personhood, 2 |
| Dennett - True Believers |
Genetics |
Mind |
Olson - What Are We? The Question, 2 |
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4 |
| Status: Personal Identity (2025 - December) |
Status: Priority Task List (2026 - February) |
Status: Summary (2025 - December) |
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) |
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.
Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note
| Author |
Title |
Medium |
Extra Links |
Read? |
| Alexander (Denis) |
Evolution and the Fall |
Paper  |
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Yes |
| Al-Khalili (Jim) & McFadden (Johnjoe) |
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology |
Paper  |
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Yes |
| Anderson (Mark) |
Enter halophytes |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Anthony (Andrew), Midgley (Mary) |
Mary Midgley: a late stand for a philosopher with soul |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
| Blackburn (Simon) |
Has Kant Refuted Parfit? |
Paper |
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| Burkeman (Oliver) |
The I in Mind: Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) |
Seeds: On Personal Identity and the Resurrection |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Dennett (Daniel) |
Conditions of Personhood |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Dennett (Daniel) |
True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Ellis (George F.R.), Etc |
From Chaos to Free Will |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Feldman (Fred) |
Abortion and the Failure to Conceive |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Feldman (Fred) |
Life-Functional Theories of Life |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Feldman (Fred) |
Vitalist Theories of Life |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: 2019+ |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Hayden (Brian) |
How the village feast paved the way to empires and economics |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Henriques (Martha) |
Organisms might be quantum machines |
Paper |
2, 3 |
Yes |
| Jarrett (Christian) |
Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Kagan (Shelly) |
How to Count Animals, more or less |
Paper |
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| Kingma (Elselijn) |
Were You Part of Your Mother? |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Yes |
| Meincke (Anne Sophie) |
Human Persons – A Process View |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Meincke (Anne Sophie) |
Review of Chauncey Maher's 'Plant Minds' |
Paper |
2, 3, 4 |
Yes |
| Mellor (D.H.) |
Real Time: Introduction and Summary |
Paper |
2, 3, 4 |
Yes |
| Noonan (Harold) |
Locke |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? The Question |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Petersen (Rachael) |
Do plants have minds? |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Sandford (Stella) |
Seeing plants anew |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Shoemaker (David) |
Personal Identity and Immortality |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Snowdon (Paul) |
The Self and Personal Identity |
Paper |
|
Yes |
| Thomas (Janice L.) |
Psychological continuity |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Review - Daniel Dennett – Conditions of Personhood |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Animals |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Biological Criterion |
Paper |
2 |
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Genetics |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Mind |
Paper |
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Yes |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Personal Identity |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Yes |
| Wilson (Jack) |
Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities |
Paper |
2, 3, 4, 5 |
Yes |
| Wiseman (P.J.) |
Translation and Commentary |
Paper |
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References & Reading List
| Author |
Title |
Medium |
Source |
Read? |
| Aeon |
Video - The secret language of trees |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 20 April 2021 |
Yes |
| Calvo (Paco) |
The philosophy of plant neurobiology: a manifesto |
Paper - Cited |
Synthese , May 2016, Vol. 193, No. 5, Special Issue on Neuroscience And Its Philosophy (2014–2015) (May 2016), pp. 1323-1343 |
6% |
| Gagliano (Monica) |
The mind of plants: Thinking the unthinkable |
Paper - Cited |
Communicative and Integrative Biology, 10, 2017 |
Yes |
| Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: Follow-up Boxes |
Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
100% |
| Meincke (Anne Sophie) |
Human Persons – A Process View |
Paper - Cited |
Was sind und wie existieren Personen? (What are Persons and how Do They Exist?), ed. by Jörg Noller, Münster: Mentis, 2019 |
Yes |
| Meincke (Anne Sophie) |
Human Persons – A Process View |
Paper - Referencing |
Was sind und wie existieren Personen? (What are Persons and how Do They Exist?), ed. by Jörg Noller, Münster: Mentis, 2019 |
Yes |
| 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? The Question |
Paper - Referencing |
What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.) |
Yes |
| Petersen (Rachael) |
Do plants have minds? |
Paper - Referencing |
Aeon, 11 June 2024 |
Yes |
| Sandford (Stella) |
Seeing plants anew |
Paper - Referencing |
Aeon, 02 August 2024 |
Yes |
| Segundo-Ortin (Miguel), Etc |
Plant Cognition - A Methodological Primer: Theories, Methods and Challenges |
Paper - Cited |
Philosophy Compass, 13 December 2025 |
33% |
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