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Personal Identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract The aim of this chapter is to articulate the state of the art in the moral psychology of personal identity. It begins by discussing the major philosophical theories of personal identity, including the Psychological View, the Biological View (animalism), and the Anthropological View (humanism).
David Shoemaker, Kevin Tobia
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Personal identity

open access: yes, 2019
Abstract This chapter analyzes Locke’s seminal treatment of personal identity and examines objections to it and replies to them. It (1) discusses his sharp divorce between a person’s identity and the identity of any substance, (2) formulates in analytical style his definition of personal identity in terms of memory, and (3) explains his ...
Noonan, Harold
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Personal identity in Japan

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012
This chapter explores characteristics of identity formation among Japanese adolescents and young adults living in a cultural context where individualism has been increasingly emphasized even while maintaining collectivism. We argue that, to develop a sense of identity in Japanese culture, adolescents and young adults carefully consider others ...
Kazumi, Sugimura, Shinichi, Mizokami
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Identity and Personal Identity

Mind, 1976
It is clearly preferable to provide at least a sketch of a general theory of identity, of which the account I will develop for personal identity will be a special case, rather than merely to give an ad hoc solution to the latter problem. Indeed, the impossibility of extending a putative account of the identity of persons to the identity of chairs or ...
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Personal identity in Italy

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012
This chapter discusses specifics of identity formation in Italian adolescents and emerging adults. We review consistent evidence illustrating that, in Italy, a progressive deferral of transition to adulthood strongly impacts youth identity development by stimulating identity exploration and postponement of identity commitments.
Crocetti, Elisabetta   +2 more
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Personal identity, multiple personality, and hypnosis

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1962
Abstract 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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