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A Dilemma for Personal Identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Some theories of personal identity allow persons to lose their identities in processes of qualitative change, i.e., to become a numerically different person by getting new physical and/or psychological properties. I shall call these theories strong. Weak
Kügler, Peter
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Transformation without Paternalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Human development is meant to be transformational in that it aims to improve people's lives by enhancing their capabilities. But who does it target: people as they are or the people they will become?
Davis, John B., Wells, Thomas R.
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Early‐Onset Versus Late‐Onset LGI1‐Antibody Encephalitis

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Leucine‐rich glioma‐inactivated 1 antibody (LGI1‐Ab) encephalitis predominantly affected older individuals, but has also been reported in younger patients. However, the demographic, clinical, and prognostic characteristics of early‐onset LGI1‐Ab encephalitis have yet to be systematically elucidated. This study aims to systematically
Yu Kong   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survival and personal identity in orphism

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2016
The aim of the article is to clarify the conditions which are fulfilled by the soul in orphism in order to base on it the possibility of self-survival.
Carlos Megino Rodríguez
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Personal Identity and What Matters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Identity is not what prudentially matters in survival (this is originally and most famously argued in Parfit 1984, 245-280). Consider the case of division. a is one of three identical triplets.
Holtug, Nils
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Lessons Learned: Quality Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography in Neuromyelitis Optica

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Optical coherence tomography (OCT)‐derived retina measurements are markers for neuroaxonal visual pathway status. High‐quality OCT scans are essential for reliable measurements, but their acquisition is particularly challenging in eyes with severe visual impairment, as often observed in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders ...
Hadi Salih   +40 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Cyberspace to Personal Identity

open access: yesDruštvene i Humanističke Studije, 2019
Information technologies increasingly pervade life, providing the ability to escape from the everydaylife by creating virtual identity. The Internet has long ago gone beyond the limits of the communication medium, and thanks to the exponential ...
Milan Dojčinović, Velibor Petković
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Why Are There So Many Digital Identities?

open access: yesLaw, Technology and Humans
This article analyses why people have so many digital identities and offers suggestions to reduce the numbers to more reasonable levels.  Digital identity thinking has been dominated by the objective of general-purpose reusable identity as a response to ...
Mitchell Landrigan   +2 more
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