The Nature of Personal Identity
Personal Identity
Mind Uploading and Transhumanism
Near Death Experiences
Reincarnation
Multiple Personality Disorder
Personhood and Death
Animalism
The Soul Theory
The Memory Theory
The Brain Theory
Closest Continuer Theory
Psychological Continuity Theory
Buddhists on the Self and Nirvana
St. Augustine
John Locke
Derek Parfit

The Nature of Personal Identity : What sort of changes can you undergo and remain the same person?

Staying Alive
( http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/identity.htm )
A game designed to test the consistency of your theory of personal identity from The Philosophers' Magazine Online

Personal Identity

Personal Identity
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

Some Problem Cases of Personal Identity
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/personal-id-cases.html)
Lectures notes by James Pryor (Princeton University)

Persistence through Time for Persons
(http://home.midsouth.rr.com/philarete/philosophy/persistence.html)
PDF download. Article by Carl Brock Sides examining different theories of personal identity

Mind Uploading and Transhumanism

Mind Uploading Research Group
(http://minduploading.org/murg.html)
Organization devoted to studying mind uploading

Uploading
(http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Uploading/)
Introduction to mind uploading

Mind Uploading
(http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Uploading.html)
Foresight Institute's (nanotechnology) mind uploading page

Mind Uploading Home Page
(http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/MUHomePage.html)
Philosophy and science of mind uploading

Transhumanity
(http://www.transhumanism.com/)
Online journal containing articles relating to transhumanism

World Transhumanist Association
(http://www.transhumanism.org/)
Organization devoted to furthering the philosophy of transhumanism

Extropy Institute
(http://www.extropy.org/)
Institute devoted to articulating and implementing transhumanist principles

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

Seven Positions on Personal Identity
(http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=15049)
Article by Lee Corbin cataloguing different views on personal identity

Neurotechnology
http://gyre.org/news/Neurotechnology/0/chrono
Links to articles discussing advances in brain control technology.

Near Death Experiences

Near Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
http://www.zarqon.co.uk/Lancet.pdf
Dutch study of heart attack patients who had a near death experience.

Near Death Research Foundation
http://www.nderf.org/
Links to numerous published papers on the near death experience.

Scientific Survival of Existence After Death
http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html
Links to evidence pointing to survival after death.

Reincarnation

Reincarnation and Personal Identity
(http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/80/reincarnation.htm)
Article by John Harney

Williams on Personal Identity
(http://home.midsouth.rr.com/philarete/philosophy/williams.html)
Article by Carl Brock Sides

Reincarnation: Its Meaning and Consequences
(http://www.comparativereligion.com/reincarnation.html)
Comparison of Hindu and Buddhist views of reincarnation

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

Alcor Life Extension Foundation: An Introduction
(http://www.alcor.org/Library/pdfs/alefione.pdf)
A description and defense of cryonic suspension by Jerry B. Lemler (Alcor Life Extension Foundation - Adobe File)

C.D. Broad on Survival After Death
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/articles/broad/survival.htm
Philosopher C.D. Broad explores the possibility of life after death.

Multiple Personality Disorder

Moral Status and the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
(http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/tbayne/did.pdf)
Article by Timothy Bayne on the issue of whether the different personalities of those suffering from multiple personality disorder are different persons

Multiple Personality Resources
(http://www.dissociation.com/index/Resources/)
Links to sites dealing with multiple personality disorder

Dissociation, Trauma, and Recovered Memories
(http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jjhall/body_d_l.html)
Links to over 2,700 articles

Multiple Personality and Personal Identity Revisited
(http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/lizza.html)
Article by John Lizza

Personhood and Death

Ethics and Personhood: Some Issues in Contemporary Neurological Science and Technology
(http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/Perry/personhood.html)
Article by David L. Perry

Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading
(http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/BD/Brain.html)
Article by James J. Hughes prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death

Brain Death and Brain Injury Resources
(http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Brain.html)
End of life ethics links

Analytic Philosophy and Death: Brain Death and Personal Identity
(http://www.csu.edu.au/learning/eubios/EJ65/EJ65B.html)
Article by Maurizio Salvi

Definition of Death
(http://philosophy.wisc.edu/streiffer/HOM558S00Folder/000309Definition_of_Death.pdf)
Summary of arguments for different definitions of death by Robert Streiffer (University of Wisconsin - Adobe File)

Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death
(http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/winter98/biology_consciousness.htm)
Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

Brain Injury and Brain Death Resources
http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Brain.html
Links to numerous articles relating to brain death compiled by the Network for the Definition of Death.

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 - Adobe File)

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)

The Hensel Twins
http://members.tripod.com/~midnightwill/twins.html
A short history of the Hensel Twins.

The Freedom of Love
( http://www.worldinvisible.com/newsltr/yr1997/jan/mary.htm )
Article on the Hensel twins by Mary Kliewer

The Hensel Twins
( http://members.tripod.com/~midnightwill/twins.html )
Information on the Hensel twins

A Social History of Conjoined Twins
( http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/cleave4b.html )
Excerpts from Body Doubles: Siamese Twins in Fact and Fiction by Laura E. Beardsley

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://home.midsouth.rr.com/philarete/philosophy/personal.html)
Article evaluating Locke's memory theory by Carl Brock Sides

The Brain Theory

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

Brain Transplants
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1263758.stm)
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)
PDF download. Chapter from Win Phillip's masters thesis maintained by the Mind Project

Psychological Continuity Theory

Relation R and the Question of Causation
(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 Marcus

Buddhists on the Self and Nirvana

Annata: The Concept of No-Self in Buddhism
(http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/noself.html)
This article explains the arcane concept.

The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity
(http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/james1.htm)
An in-depth article on the Buddhist view and the question of whether there actually is such a thing as “personal identity”

Buddhism in a Nutshell
http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell09.htm
Article on anatta or soul-lessness by Narada Thera.

The Buddhist Concept of Anatta
http://hinduwebsite.com/buddhism/anatta.asp
Article comparing Hinduism and Buddhism on the nature of the self by V. Jayaram.

St. Augustine

Augustine
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

Augustine of Hippo
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo)
Wikipedia article

Life of St. Augustine of Hippo
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm)
Catholic Encyclopedia article

John Locke

John Locke
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/locke.htm)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

John Locke
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

John Locke works online
(http://oll.libertyfund.org/Intros/Locke.php)
Works of John Locke on the web.

John Locke Bibliography
(http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/locke/)
A list of recent publications about John Locke

History of Philosophy: John Locke
(http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Weber%20-%20History/locke.htm)
Discussion of Locke's life and thought by Alfred Weber (University of Strasburg)

John Locke: The Case Against Innate Epistemic Principles
(http://cogweb.ucla.edu/CogSci/Locke.html)
Discussion by Francis F. Steen (U. C. L. A.)

Locke links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Lock)
EpistemeLink link collection

John Locke: Life and Works
(http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/lock.htm)
Discussion of life and thought by Garth Kemerling

Derek Parfit

Derek Parfit
(http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/parfit/)
Derek Parfit's web page at New York University

Parfit, Causation, and Survival
(http://www.geocities.com/trolleylauncher/Parfit.html)
Article by Neil McKinnon and John Bigelow

Utilitarianism and Personal Identity
(http://www.csun.edu/~dp56722/shoemakerU&PI.pdf)
Article by David W. Shoemaker (Adobe File)

Morality and Personal Identity
(http://www.lucs.lu.se/spinning/categories/moral/Tannsjo/Tannsjo.pdf)
An examination of the relation between morality and personal identity by Torbjorn Tannsjo (Gothenberg University - Adobe File)

The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Concern for the Future
(http://phil-rlst.academic.claremontmckenna.edu/akind/SC.doc)
PDF dowload. Article by Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)