..., Identity, and Abortion Eugene Mills Virginia Commonwealth University I. The Metaphysics and Morality of Origination When did I come into existence, and why should you care? Take...

... amounting to the independence of our existence from anything physical. This is a sort of highly general open-question argument. Anyone proposing this sort of argument has his or her work cut out persuading us to agree that the question of personal identity is always open. What is attractive about that idea...

...Alan Sidelle Cornell University 2000 OCCASIONS OF IDENTITY: THE METAPHYSICS OF PERSISTENCE, CHANGE, AND SAMENESS. By André Gallois. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 296. BOOK REVIEWS sciousness (Andy Clark, Daniel Dennett, Ruth Millikan...

...John Heil THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICS: SUBSTANCE, IDENTITY, AND TIME. By E. J. Lowe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x, 275. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVLEWS concerns the metaphysics of Lewis, Plantinga, Forbes, and Rosen...

...John MacFarlane Colin McGinn, Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 114. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS If the complement clause ascribes a first-person content, it expresses...

...Alexander W. Kocurek A counteridentical is a counterfactual with an identity statement in the antecedent. While counteridenticals generally seem nontrivial, most semantic theories for counterfactuals, when combined with the necessity of identity and distinctness, attribute vacuous truth conditions...

... of mind in action, this essay examines a debate between David Lewis and Derek Parfit over what matters in survival. Lewis argued that indeterminacy in personal identity allows caring about psychological connectedness and caring about personal identity to amount to the same thing. The essay argues...

... are ambiguous between de re * and de dicto * interpretations. This fact is used to account for asymmetric mistaken identity attributions (for example, Biron thinks Katherine is Rosaline, but he doesn't think Rosaline is Katherine ). The variable theory compares favorably with its alternatives, including...

...Sydney Shoemaker Tyler Burge argues on the basis of an account of memory that the notion of quasimemory cannot be used to answer the circularity objection to psychological accounts of personal identity. His account implies the impossibility of the “Parfit people,” creatures psychologically like us...

... in space and the identities of individuals. In these cases, one does not know something, and yet one cannot give voice to one's ignorance in a certain way. But what does the ignorance in these cases consist in? This essay argues that many standard models of ignorance cannot account for the phenomenon...

...—as in the section “Of personal identity” and the Appendix—there cannot be a further perception in that mind, and so those perceptions do not form a whole. Hence, Hume's views were inconsistent. This essay argues that, unlike most others, this interpretation explains his retreat to skepticism in the Appendix. ©...

... indeterminate identity and indeterminate synonymy—and argues that each is unsatisfactory. © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 deflationism referential indeterminacy indeterminacy reference indeterminate identity Picture a building consisting of two independent towers, joined only by an elevated...

... theory and a dynamic system of contingent identity. I then consider a variant on the initial puzzle that helps us to choose between the two theories. The variant also sheds light on how the phenomenon discussed in this essay relates to Frege's Puzzle about attitude ascriptions. Imagine...

..., Donald. 1988a . “Identity in the Loose and Popular Sense.” Mind 97 : 575 -82. ____. 1988b . “Many-One Identity.” Philosophical Papers 17 : 193 -216. Bennett, Karen. 2004 . “Global Supervenience and Dependence.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 : 501 -29. Boolos, George...

... proposes an account of the sources of all normativity, including and especially the sources of normative reasons.) The theory says we assess our desires and other impulses to act in light of practical conceptions of our identities, and then legislate reasons for our- selves on their basis. So...

... of justification do we apply in reflection? Korsgaard argues that one's practical identity provides the criteria. A practical identity is “a description under which you value yourself, a description under which you find your life to be worth living and your actions to be worth undertaking” (1996c, 101). It can...

... survive. The person who inherited the left hemisphere is called Lefty , and the person who inherited the right hemisphere is (predictably) called Righty . Note that “Lefty” refers to “the person who inherited the left hemisphere,” whether or not this person is identical to me (“Righty” is being used...

..., and Persistence Conditions.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 : 591 –624. Chisholm, Roderick. 1968 . “Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions.” Noûs 1 : 1 –18. ———. 1976 . Person and Object: A Metaphysical Study . La Salle, IL: Open Court. ———. 1986 . “Self-Profile...

... of the following two theses (besides the one that human life does not begin before fertilization): A-zygote-is-a-human : Every (normal) zygote is a human being. 5 A-human-was-once-a-zygote : Every infant, child, adolescent, or adult is numerically identical with the zygote she came from. 6...

..., and entertaining book (based on his 1999 Jean Nicod lec- tures), John Perry supposes that type-identity physicalism is antecedently plau- sible, and that rejecting this thesis requires good reason (this is “antecedent physicalism He aims to show that experience gap arguments, as given by Jackson (the knowledge...