Definition of a concept
THE PERSONAL IDENTITY
The Self

unnamed
DEFINITION
in philosophy

"what, if anything, makes a person the same person despite change over time", p.18 B1 (N. Warbuton)

Different from "political / sociological" sense of identity (culture, ethnicity, sexual preferences, etc.) (who am I?)

OTHER WORDS
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PERSON
SELF
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/

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MAIN QUESTIONS
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/

PERSONHOOD

PERSISTENCE

  1. what is it to be a person,
    as opposed to a nonperson?
  2. at which point does one become a person?
  3. what does it take to become a one?
  1. what does it take for a person to continue existing rather than ceasing to exist?
  2. what determines which past or future being is you?

EVIDENCE

  1. what evidence makes a person themselves?

⭐ First-person memory
⭐ Physical continuity

⭐ Psychological continuity
⭐ Physical continuity
⭐ Both
⭐ Our narrativist view
⭐ The anticriterialist view

⭐ Special mental properties
at a given time

POPULATION

  1. How many persons is there at a given time?

⭐ number of human organisms
⭐ but could several beings share a single organism?

WHAT AM I?

  1. what are our fundamental properties?
    what are we made of?
  2. where do our spatial boundaries are, if any?

⭐ biological organisms
⭐ material things constituted by certain organisms
⭐ temporal parts of animals
⭐ spatial parts of animals
⭐ partless immateral substances (souls)
⭐ collection of mental states or events
⭐ we are nothing at all

WHAT MATTERS IN IDENTITY?

  1. what are the practical implications?
  2. why does it matter?