Issues and Applications

The Problem of Personal Identity
Staying Alive: The Personal Identity Game (http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/identity.htm) Test the coherence of your view of personal identity by trying to stay alive from The Philosophers' Magazine Online



Personal Identity (http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=553122&secid=.-&hh=1) Oxford Companion to Philosophy article



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://philarete.home.mindspring.com/philosophy/personal.html) Article by Carl Brock Sides examining different theories of personal identity



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



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

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



Mind Uploading: an Introduction (http://www.transtopia.org/uploading.html) Article by Adam Kadmon on the possibility 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



Transhumanist Resources (http://www.aleph.se/Trans/) Collection of links to sites dealing with transhumanist topics



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

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



The Anattaa Doctrine and Personal Identity (http://sino-sv3.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/taylor.htm) Article by Richard Taylor (University of Rochester) on the Buddhist theory of personal identity



Williams on Personal Identity (http://philarete.home.mindspring.com/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



The No-self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity (http://sino-sv3.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/james1.htm) Article by James Giles



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)

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 Moral Responsibility (http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/ppp/3.1braude.html) Article by Stephen E. Braude



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/neurological.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 2^nd 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.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/EJ65/EJ65B.html) Article by Maurizio Salvi



The Terminus of the Self (http://www.extropy.org/ideas/journal/previous/1993/03-01.html) Article by Max Moore



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)



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

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The Problem of Personal Identity