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Personal identity, multiple personality, and hypnosis
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1962Abstract The concept of multiple personality ia critically examined in the light of its historical development. Various conceptions of multiple personality are considered: aa a diagnostic fashion; aa a product of shaping in therapy; as a product of hypnotic suggestion; as simulation; and aa an extension of characteristica found in “normal ...
J P, SUTCLIFFE, J, JONES
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Personal identity in Belgium and The Netherlands
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012This chapter provides an overview of research on personal identity formation in the Low Countries (Belgium and The Netherlands). First we describe the broader societal context and specificities of Belgium and The Netherlands, then we move to a historical overview of the identity models that have been developed in these countries.
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Disablement and personal identity
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2006A number of commentators claim their disability to be a part of their identity. This claim can be labelled 'the identity claim'. It is the claim that disabling characteristics of persons can be identity-constituting. According to a central constraint on traditional discussions of personal identity over time, only essential properties can count as ...
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Persons, animals, and identity
Synthese, 2007The paper is concerned with how neo-Lockean accounts of personal identity should respond to the challenge of animalist accounts. Neo-Lockean accounts that hold that persons can change bodies via brain transplants or cerebrum transplants are committed to the prima facie counterintuitive denial that a person is an (biologically individuated) animal. This
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Personal identity and rationality
Synthese, 1982Abstract Examines whether, if a reductionist view is true, we have any reason for special concern about our own future and gives extreme and moderate answers. It offers an argument against the Classical Self‐interest Theory, defending a discount rate, not with respect to time itself, but with respect to the degree of psychological ...
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Inquiry, 1969
Spinoza's avowed aim is to discover and present the essential stages in achieving the life of human blessedness. The most important element in this progression is knowledge, of one's own nature as man, and of one's place in the universe. Utility as opposed to truth of belief will not serve Spinoza's purpose.
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Spinoza's avowed aim is to discover and present the essential stages in achieving the life of human blessedness. The most important element in this progression is knowledge, of one's own nature as man, and of one's place in the universe. Utility as opposed to truth of belief will not serve Spinoza's purpose.
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Digital identity – The legal person?
Computer Law & Security Review, 2009This paper examines the concept of digital identity which the author asserts is now evident in the United Kingdom as a consequence of the Identity Cards Act (UK) 2006 and the National Identity Scheme it establishes. The nature and functions of the concept, particularly the set of information which constitutes an individual’s transactional identity, are
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The Personal Identity Test: A Measure of Discontinuity in Core Personal Identity
Psychological ReportsIndividuals’ identity formation is generally understood to occur at multiple levels. Extant research distinguishes two levels of personal identity: (a) an external sense of personal identity that is formed by family, school, and community interactions and (b) a core internal sense of personality identity that is generally understood to be formed during
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What Persons Are: Identity, Personal Identity, and Composition
2019Since asking which person is involved in some action (“Who is the responsible person?”) invites elaboration of the contours of a conception of persons as responsible agents, and hence of some details of our mastery of this conception, that elaboration will require us to address the nature of persons in the light of the completeness and definiteness of ...
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Identity and Person: Locke on Personal Identity
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