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
Personal Identity Personal Identity
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Mind Uploading and Transhumanism Uploading
(http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Uploading/)
Introduction to mind uploading
Mind Uploading Home Page
(http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/MUHomePage.html)
Philosophy and science of mind uploading
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 Near Death Experiences Near Death Research Foundation
http://www.nderf.org/
Links to numerous published papers on the near death experience. Reincarnation 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
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 Multiple Personality Resources
(http://www.dissociation.com/index/Resources/)
Links to sites dealing with multiple personality disorder
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
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 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)
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)
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 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 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)
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