Theories

Animalism
Harold Noonan: Arguments Against Animalism (http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/bakersymp_noonan.htm) Article by Harold Noonan against animalism



Lynne Rudder Baker: Reply to Noonan (http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/bakersymp_replytonoonan.htm) Reply to Noonan's paper by Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts)



Thinking Animals and the Constitution View (http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/bakersymp_olson.htm) A defense of animalism by one of its most prominent proponents, Eric Olson (Churchill College, Cambridge)



Survival of the Sentient (http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/unger/papers/survival.pdf) A critique of animalism by Peter Unger (New York University)



The Bounds of Agency within the Unity of Consciousness (http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/MARKB.4.htm) A critique of both animalism and the psychological continuity theory by Mark Brown (University of Wisconsin)



Lectures on Personal Identity (http://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy.department/modules/kandr/njcs/PI.HTM) Lecture notes comparing Parfit's theory with animalism (University of Durham)

The Soul Theory
The Immateriality of the Soul and Personal Identity (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/supplement.html) Supplemental article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy



Thought Experiments and the Soul (http://www.friesian.com/soul.htm) Article by Kelly L. Ross (Los Angeles Valley College)



The Soul in Roy Bhaskar's Thought (http://www.damaris.org/dcscs/readingroom/2001/collier1.htm) An account of various notions of the soul by Andrew Collier (University of Southampton)



How Does Your Soul Fit Into Your Brain? (http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/brain.html) Article by Adrian Barnett on the relationship between the brain and the soul



Arguments Supporting Reincarnation (http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/ArgueForReincarnation.html) Article by William Q. Judge defending reincarnation

The Memory Theory
Self and Identity as Memory (http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/SelfIdentityMemory.htm) Article by John F. Kihlstrom & Jennifer S. Beer Stanley B. Klein (University of California at Berkeley)



The Memory Theory: Logical Worries (http://www.unc.edu/~theis/phil20/logicalprobs.html) Lecture notes by Ben Theis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)



Persistence through Time for Persons (http://philarete.home.mindspring.com/philosophy/personal.html) Article evaluating Locke's memory theory by Carl Brock Sides



The Continuity Argument (http://www.stanford.edu/~pxwang/Williams.pdf) Defense of the memory theory by Philip Wang (Stanford University)



Locke's Theory of Personal Identity (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/prel2.htm) Article by Peter B. Lloyd



Locke, Book II (http://faculty.washington.edu/himma/phil3604/trans012.htm) Lecture notes on Locke's theory of personal identity by Ken Himma (University of Washington)

The Brain Theory
The Diachronic Self (http://www.maxmore.com/disscont.htm) Dissertation on personal identity by Max Moore (Extropy Institute)



Brain Transplants (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/science_nature/brain.shtml) Article on the possibility of brain transplants by BBC news.



Dualism: An Empirical Test (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shil0124/mystuff/dualism.html) Implications of brain transplants for theories of the self by Peter J. King (University of North London)

Closest Continuer Theory
Personal Survival and the Closest Continuer Theory (http://www.eou.edu/~jjohnson/personalsurvival.htm) Article by Jeff Johnson (Eastern Oregon University)



Causal Conditions of Continuity (http://www.maxmore.com/chapter1.htm) Discussion of the closest continuer theory by Max Moore (Extropy Institute)



Maintaining Identity (http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/misc/WinPhilp/PhillipsCh5.doc?class=phi315a¤t=23) Chapter from Win Phillip's masters thesis maintained by the Mind Project



Recent Work on Identity through Time (http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/~sider/papers/recent_work_on_identity.htm) Article by Theodore Sider (Syracuse University)

Psychological Continuity Theory
Parfit, Lewis, Sperry, and Leibniz on Identity and Survival (http://philosophy.wisc.edu/marshall/parfit.pdf) Defense of the Psychological Continuity theory by Eugene Marshall (University of Wisconsin)



Relation R and the Question of Causationf (http://www.dur.ac.uk/Philosophical.Writings/FormattingEG.pdf) Defense of the psychological continuity theory by G. J. Shipley



Parfit on Survival (http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/parfit.html) Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University)



A Metaphysical Manifesto for Translated Travelers (http://www.bkmarcus.com/docs/manifesto.html) Evaluation of Parfit's theory as it applies to the prospect of teletransportation by Brian Knatz



All the World's a Stage (http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/~sider/papers/stage.html) Defense of a 4-dimensional view of persons by Theodore Sider (University of Rochester)

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Animalism