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The 37 pages that link to Personal identity, each with the reason it gives.
John LockeRelated: Locke ties personal identity to consciousness and memory, not merely substance.
Social IdentityCompared with: It emphasizes individual distinctiveness, unlike identity grounded in group membership.
Mind–body problemRelated: Accounts of the mind affect whether identity depends on body, brain, or psychological continuity.
MetaphysicsBroader topic: It applies metaphysical accounts of identity to memory, bodies, and personal survival.
AnattāRelated: Anattā approaches continuity through changing conditions rather than an unchanging personal core.
Cartesian dualismRelated: Treating the self as thinking substance raises questions about its persistence apart from the body.
AfterlifeRelated: An afterlife raises the question of what must persist for the deceased to remain the same person.
Resurrection of the deadRelated: Resurrection raises the question of how a restored person remains identical to someone who died.
Social roleCompared with: Individual self-understanding is not identical to expectations attached to a position.
Collective identityCompared with: It foregrounds individual self-understanding rather than a shared group membership.
IdentityBroader topic: It narrows identity to the persistence of a person through change.
Narrative identityNarrower topic: Narrative identity is one account of how personal identity persists through change.
SubstanceRelated: Substance-based accounts may identify the enduring person with an underlying soul or self.
HylomorphismRelated: Some hylomorphic theories explain human identity through the unity of embodied person and soul.
OnomasticsRelated: Given names and name changes can express and shape personal identity.
Philosophy of mindRelated: Accounts of memory and mental continuity shape theories of the self.
PersonhoodRelated: Accounts of personhood often depend on what preserves a person's identity through change.
NeuroethicsRelated: Brain interventions can alter memory, mood, or character, testing assumptions about continuity of self.
Population ethicsRelated: Choices can change which future individuals exist, complicating claims about who is harmed.
HaircutRelated: A chosen cut can express how someone understands and presents their identity.
ImmortalityRelated: An immortal being must retain enough continuity to count as the same person.
PudgalavādaRelated: The pudgala offered a distinctive account of continuity without identity to aggregates.
ShapeshiftingRelated: Shapeshifting tests whether identity depends on body, memory, character, or recognition.
Soul (spirituality)Related: The soul is often proposed as what preserves a person’s identity through bodily and psychological change.
Substance theoryRelated: The persistence of a person is often explained by treating the person as an enduring substance.
Philip K. DickRelated: His characters often lose, divide, or discover the identities they assumed were theirs.
Derek ParfitRelated: Parfit challenged the idea that identity itself is what matters in survival.
Phineas GageRelated: Popular accounts of Gage often frame reported personality changes as a question of identity.
The Return of Martin GuerreNarrower topic: The trial tested whether resemblance, knowledge, and social acceptance could establish who someone was.
Christian existentialismRelated: Existential accounts ask how a self becomes itself through choices and relationships.
Proper nounRelated: A person’s proper name can express identity and recognition, while not defining either completely.
Mind (mental faculty)Related: Memory and consciousness are often proposed as foundations of identity over time.
An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingRelated: Locke ties personal identity to continuity of consciousness rather than sameness of substance.
Existential crisisRelated: A crisis can turn continuity of self into a pressing question.
Law of identityBroader topic: It tests how identity applies when an entity changes across time.
DalilahRelated: A given name can become one element of an individual’s identity.
Robert EttingerRelated: Even successful biological repair would leave questions about continuity of the preserved person.