Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e

Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

The Problem of Personal Identity

Golden Memories: Self as Psyche

Thought Probes

Multiple Personalities: Would destroying the memories of a personality in a person suffering from multiple personality disorder be an act of murder? Why or why not?
Existential Issues in Multiple Personality (http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/existential.html) Collection of links relating to 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



Multiple Personality as a Failure of Autobiographical Memory (http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/markb002.htm) Article by Mark Brown



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



Dissociative Disorders (http://www.mentalhealth.org.au/ddkit.html) Description of various dissociative disorders by the Mental Health Association

Soul Catcher: Suppose scientists succeed in making a computer chip that can record all of the experiences of one's life. Should such a chip be made generally available?
The End of Death: Soul Catcher Chip Due (http://www.rense.com/political/weapons/soul.htm) Article by Robert Uhlig from the Electronic Telegraph on British Telecom's plans to create a chip to record experiences



Ghosts, Computers, and Chinese Whispers (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/writing/PCW/upload.htm) Article by Toby Howard (University of Manchester) on the implications of the soul catcher chip



Catching Up with the Soul Catcher (http://www.j-cg.co.uk/brain.htm) Article discussing British Telecom's research



The Melding of Mind with Machine May Be the Next Stage of Evolution (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/cyber/compcol/11compcol-fixmer.html) Article by Rob Fixmer from the New York Times



Peter Cochrane will Microprocess your Soul (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/wired25.html?pg=17) Article by Wendy Grossman from Wired



The Future of Cybernetics (http://www.cochrane.org.uk/opinion/interviews/cybernetics.htm) Interview with Peter Cochrane of British Telecom from ABCNews

Past-Life Hypnotic Regression: Does past-life hypnotic regression provide good evidence for reincarnation?
Past Life Regression (http://skepdic.com/pastlife.html) Article from the Skeptic's Dictionary maintained by Robert Todd Carroll



Hypnotic Regression (http://www.mikepettigrew.com/afterlife/html/hypnotic_regression.html) Article from the Institute for Afterlife Research



Research into Past Life Regression (http://www.webbscottage.co.uk/research_into_past-life_regression.htm) Annotated bibliography of books on past life regression by Angela and Martin Howard



Hypnotic Regression to Previous Liveshttp://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/person... (http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/regression.cfm) Statement by reincarnation researcher Ian Stevenson (University of Virginia) on past life regression



Hypnotic Regressions Do Not Give Us the Whole Picture (http://www.mantra-meditation.com/hypnotic-regressions-do-not-give-us-whole-picture.html) Article from MantraMeditation.com

Transporter travel: Would you use a Parfit-style transporter to travel from one place to another?
Teletransporters: A Sensible Way of Travelling or a Death Machine? (http://www.geocities.com/griseborough/01.htm) Article by Glen Mason-Riseborough (University of Auckland)



The Duplicates Paradox (http://www.benbest.com/philo/doubles.html) Article by Ben Best on the reduplication problem



Implications of Fission, Fusion, and Teletransportation (http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tdo/identity_over_time.pdf) Article by Toby Ord defending the psychological continuity theory of personal identity



A Metaphysical Manifesto for Translated Travelers (http://www.bkmarcus.com/docs/manifesto.html) Article by Brian Knatz on the implications of teletransportation



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

Can You Go to Heaven? Can a person in heaven who does not have your physical body be numerically identical to you?
Transhumanist Ethics (http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/transhumanist.pdf) Article by Nick Bostrum (Yale University) on the possibility of physical immortality



Life as an Upload (http://www.sciforums.com/archive/32/2001/09/1/2787) Discussion from sciforums.com on what it would be like to upload your mind into another being



Can You Go to Heaven? (http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/schick_19_4.html) Article by Theodore Schick (Muhlenberg College)

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