...: If mothers have their foetuses as parts, then wherever there is a pregnant mother, there is also a smaller thinking being that has every part of the mother except for those that overlap with the foetus. This problem resembles a familiar overpopulation puzzle from the personal identity literature, known...

...Lukas J Meier We can now specify what neo-Lockeans put forward as the criterion of transtemporal personal identity: an individual x at t₁ is psychologically continuous, and hence, identical, with an individual y at t₂ if and only...

..., indicating where major areas of agreement can be found and where the most important disagreements really lie. essence gender metaphysics personal identity sex transgender Issues pertaining to sex and gender continue to be some of the most hotly debated topics of our time. Contemporary debates signal...

... other purposes such as establishing one’s identity. The passport is evidence offered as a substitute for firsthand knowledge of a person’s identity and citizenship. Its use depends on social regulations backed by military force’. ⁶ It enables governments to entrench ‘enduring identities...

...Charles L Barzun The key idea underlying my answer to both questions is that their proper resolution depends on normative considerations about what makes human life valuable, rather than on metaphysical claims about the nature of personal identity. The near-consensus view among philosophers—though...

... of union’ and his account of fictions of the imagination is the defect identified in the ‘Appendix’. Hume personal identity fictions the self mental content Two kinds of scepticism are present in Hume's Treatise: epistemological scepticism and conceptual scepticism...

...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) body transplantation body donation brain transplantation personal identity Abstract Brain transplants have long been no more than the subject of science fiction and engaging thought experiments. That is no longer...

...Ana Iltis family informed consent personal identity research ethics surgical innovation Soul transplants, brain swaps and splits and transplants, disembodied but conscious brains, and ship repair and building have captured philosophical imaginations exploring personal identity and what...

..., assuming transplant is successful, who survives the surgery? Does personal identity necessarily follow the head? The contributors to this special thematic issue explore the nature and ground of personal identity, what it would mean to preserve personal identity, given such a significant set of physical...

... nobleness. However, the problem is that even if head transplant were a scientifically mature technology that could be used safely in the future, ethically, it still should not be performed in human beings from a Confucian perspective. It would violate the selfhood or personal identity that is essential...

... may also appeal to the continuity of “apparent memory and character” as a viable epistemic criterion of personal identity. Furthermore, recognizing that certain types of brain states are related to apparent memory and character traits, the physical and functional continuity of the same brain could...

... and ethicists, were intrigued to explore what head transplants, if technically possible, would mean for the nature of human life as well as for proper human relationships. In particular, we paid attention to the issue of personal identity: who would the person be after a head transplant ( Fan et al., 2017...

... as the same person. These observations point the way to a positive account of personhood, and provide further insight into the conditions under which literal survival preserves what matters. personal identity phenomenal continuity consciousness access consciousness vegetative state forensic...

... considerations that seem to be empirically substantiated. One virtue of my solution is that in addition to its theoretical apparatus it appeals to empirically substantiated considerations. thinking parts body schema embodiment personal identity Norma is a human animal with parts responsible for thinking...

...’ account implies that contraception is prima facie seriously wrong. My argument for this conclusion has a significant advantage over existing criticisms of Marquis based on controversial accounts of personal identity. It shows that the problem with his account is not his view that identity across time...

.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract Should Christians support the view that one’s psychological continuity is the main criterion of personal identity? Is the continuity of one’s brain or memory states necessary and sufficient for the identicalness of the person? This paper investigates the plausibility...

... are. In doing so, these leading scholars in the field address some of the most fundamental questions in Christian bioethics scholarship today. charity conscientious objection Hippocratic Oath personal identity stewardship technology transgender Next, Bishop challenges a second commonly held view, namely...

... that constitutes continuity are stronger ( 1997a : 132, fn. 31; 1997b : 138, 141–3). An immediate problem for such a view is that continuity is transitive. Parfit defines continuity as a transitive relation in order for continuity to be a possible criterion of personal identity. Since personal identity...

... with some of our most basic ethical and prudential principles. I argue that although Johnston’s arguments succeed on a worm-theoretic account of persistence, they fail on a stage-theoretic account. So much the worse, I conclude, for the worm theory. personal identity persistence stage theory Mark...

...Parker Crutchfield All of the going accounts of personal identity allow that a person’s traits can change dramatically while preserving numerical identity, so long as there is some form of continuity from one change to the next. There’s no reason to think that the essential moral self hypothesis...