Human and Personal Identity

Abnormal Causal Ground accept actual animalism animalist argument Ayers believe body brain transplant branching coherent conscious continued existence core psychology counterintuitive implications defenders deny diachronic identity discussed in chapter distinctive psychology dualism example fact formerly existing full psychological connectedness future pain head transplant human identity consists Identity of Indiscernibles imagine implausible implies indeterminacy intuitions Leibniz's Law linked logically possible M-type Madell Madell's matters memory Multiple Occupancy Thesis neo-Lockean NO-thesis non-reductionism non-reductionist Noonan normal cause object ontological persistence personal identity personalist approaches personalist views physical continuity physical view plausible previous awareness condition problem of personal prudential concern psychological attributes psychological continuity Psychological Criterion psychological elements psychological relations psychological views psychophysical history qualitatively identical quasi-memory question rational reason reductionism reductionist personalism reductionist personalist reductionist views seems Shoemaker Snowdon sortal soul spatiotemporal continuity standpoint Stefan substance-dualism survive Swinburne Swinburne's teletransporter theorists thing thought experiments transitivity of identity Unger Wiggins Wiggins's