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Identity
Edited by Chad Carmichael (Indiana University Indianapolis)
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| Summary | Identity is sameness: the relation that holds between each thing and itself, and never holds between two things. Most philosophical issues about identity concern the relationship between identity and other important concepts: time, necessity, personhood, composition (parthood), indiscernibility, and vagueness. In addition to these issues, some have suggested that identity is not absolute, but relative, so that we may say two things are the same person or statue, but not the same simpliciter. Finally, there are questions about whether there must always be informative criteria of identity that settle questions about when identity holds or fails to hold. |
| Key works | Quine 1950 is a classic piece that treats several of the issues mentioned above. For the relationship between identity and modality, see Kripke 1971, 1980, and Gibbard 1975. On the identity of indiscernibles, see Black 1952 and Adams 1979. Baxter 1988 and Lewis 1990 defend versions of the thesis of composition as identity. See van Inwagen 1994 for a critique. Evans 1978 argues against vague identity. See Stalnaker 1988 and Parsons & Woodruff 1995 for replies. On relative identity, see Geach 1967, Geach 1980, and Perry 1970. |
| Introductions | See the Stanford Encyclopedia piece on Identity Noonan & Curtis 2022 for a nice overview of nearly all of these topics. Hawthorne 2003 has an excellent discussion of several of these issues as well. Many of the papers listed above are collected in Kim et al 2011. |
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Composition as Identity* (150)
Contingent Identity (81)
Theories of Personal Identity* (2,459 | 1,139)
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Criteria of Identity (121)
Identity, Misc (557)
History/traditions: Identity
- Locke: Identity (143)
- Frege: Identity (47)
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- Paradigm Lock — Universal Identity & Persistence.Devin Bostick - manuscriptThis paper proves a structural necessity result about identity persistence. Under minimal universal axioms required for identity to be meaningful and non-arbitrary (comparability, drift-bounded persistence, compositional closure, and affine gauge invariance), identity-relevant recurrence is forced to reduce to a single compact 1-DOF trunk, classified as S¹. Given S¹, invariant identity content factors through an SO(2)/O(2) harmonic family {r_k, χ_k}. The paper then proves that identity persistence requires scalar governance and that—up to affine gauge—the unique governance functional compatible with the constraints (...)
- Coherence as the Governing Invariant of Persistence_ A Unifying Principle Beneath Physics, Biology, Mind, and Value.Devin Bostick - manuscriptThis paper argues that coherence is a governing invariant of persistence: a system remains identifiable over time if and only if it maintains internal alignment under perturbation, and collapses when drift exceeds recoverable bounds. The claim is not advanced as a competing theory within physics, biology, or psychology, but as a prior condition implicitly assumed by each. Existing paradigms explain behavior given persistence; none defines what makes persistence possible in the first place. -/- By making coherence explicit, identity ceases to (...)
- The Sufficiency Gate_ Bounding Scope in SO(2)-Invariant Coherence Laws.Devin Bostick - manuscriptCoherence-based frameworks for identity persistence increasingly appeal to scalar invariants derived from minimal symmetry classes, most commonly SO(2). In such frameworks, identity continuity is defined by bounded drift of a scalar coherence measure, yielding a deterministic criterion for persistence and failure. As these approaches gain visibility, claims of necessity are frequently misread as claims of sufficiency. This paper introduces the Sufficiency Gate, a formal demarcation that separates these notions. An SO(2)-invariant scalar coherence law may be necessary for identity persistence across (...)
- Elemer Nemesszeghy, SJ: Un importador temprano de la Lógica matemática a Chile.Gabriel Donoso Umaña & Esteban Echaniz - 2025 - Culturas Cientificas 6 (1):63-95.Elemer Nemesszeghy, S. J. (1925-2007), a Hungarian philosopher living in Chile between 1956 and 1971, taught Mathematical logic for fifteen years in a country that lacked a local tradition in the field. Despite his contributions, his figure has been omitted by both the historiography of logic and Chilean intellectual history. This article seeks to reconstruct Nemesszeghy's philosophical and logical trajectory and to characterize his work from a historical-philosophical point of view. To this end, it analyzes his intellectual formation within the (...)
- Beyond Quantum Individuals: Quasi-Sets and the Philosophy of Quantum Logics.J. A. F. Cuesta & Juan Pablo Jorge - manuscriptStandard quantum logics are typically defined over the orthomodular lattice associated with Hilbert space, yet there is no consensus on how this structure should be interpreted logically or ontologically. This paper offers a unified perspective on these issues by combining an epistemological three-layer model for scientific theories with quantum set theory. We argue that quasi-set theory is best understood not as an alternative semantics for quantum logics, but as an ontological framework operating at a different epistemological level: the ontological one. (...)
- From Coherence Invariants to Composable Intelligence: Why Identity, Safety, and Emergence Require a Scalar Governing Law.Devin Bostick - manuscriptWhat does it mean for a system to remain the same system over time while it changes? This paper argues that prevailing dynamical, statistical, and computational frameworks lack a governing criterion for identity persistence and therefore cannot decide when a system preserves its identity under evolution, composition, or re-instantiation. We prove that identity-governed emergence is undecidable unless the system admits a scalar identity invariant that totally orders states and bounds drift. Drawing on prior work that forces SO(2) as the minimal (...)
- DE ARCHITECTURA INFINITATIS: Ultimate Ontological Realignment and the Methodological Bridge of Structural Identity.Aykut Aşkar - manuscriptAbstract The foundational landscape of modern set theory, established primarily upon the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms with the Axiom of Choice (ZFC), operates under a criterion of identity governed by the Axiom of Extensionality. While this ex tensional approach has provided a rigorous framework for mathematics for over a century, it harbors an inherent ”ontological blindness” regarding the struc tural constitution of transfinite objects. This paper marks the final synthesis of the Co-Equal Structure Thesis (CEST), asserting that the identity of an infi (...)
- AI Collapse → Recognition → Stabilization: The Universal Principle of Collapse (UPC) — An Empirical Stress Test.Eloy Escagedo Gutierrez - manuscriptThe Universal Principle of Collapse (UPC) has been applied to ideological, classical, quantum, and cosmological paradoxes. This paper presents a behavioral–operational demonstration of UPC within an artificial cognitive system. Using a structured session with a large language model (LLM), we enforce explicit recognition operators to test collapse, misalignment, and stabilization. Results show that paradox persists when recognition is implicit, collapse emerges when linguistic fluency substitutes for explicit operator‑level validation, and coherence appears only when recognition is enforced step‑by‑step. These behaviors confirm (...)
- Paradigm Lock_ Trunk Closure of Identity as the Unique 1-DOF Recurrence.Devin Bostick - manuscriptThis paper presents a trunk-level axiomatization and formal closure of identity governance for recurrent systems under explicit structural constraints. It introduces a minimal axiom set (A1–A9) defining identity-relevant bounded recurrence and proves the forced trunk structure that any system satisfying these axioms must admit. -/- From A1–A9 alone, the paper proves: representation on S¹; SO(2) as the connected admissible symmetry; O(2) chirality capacity when orientation distinctions are required; a complete invariant family {r_k, χ_k}; minimal scalar governance (PAS_h, χ_h) when chirality (...)
- Is generalised identity a basis for essence and grounding?Ralf Busse - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.This paper examines what role generalised or higher-order identity can and should play in the context of essence and grounding. Emphasising important analogies to ordinary identity, I will speak of quasi-identity. While many philosophers embrace essence and grounding as primitive notions, F. Correia and A. Skiles offer an analysis in terms of identifications linking sentences and open formulas instead of singular terms. Their basic idea is to construe an essential feature as a conjunctive part and a ground as a disjunctive (...)
- The Universal Principle of Collapse A Diagnostic Audit of Meaning in Artificial Intelligence.Eloy Escagedo Gutierrez - manuscriptThis paper applies the Universal Principle of Collapse (UPC) to artificial intelligence, demonstrating that AI systems cannot possess consciousness or meaning. What appears as “understanding” in AI arises entirely from human observers collapsing machine‑generated outputs into significance. Through direct dialogue with AI, the paper shows how UPC audits resolve apparent paradoxes and clarify the distinction between mechanical selection and conscious recognition. The framework establishes that collapse, resonance, and recognition are irreducible structures of human consciousness, and that AI, lacking Source and (...)
- Identity as a Coherence Interface_ A Structural Theory of Selfhood in Biological Phase Systems.Devin Bostick - manuscriptPhilosophical and psychological accounts of identity have largely proceeded in a representational domain: selves are described in terms of narratives, traits, beliefs, and introspective reports. Yet the biological systems that sustain minded organisms are organized in a different domain entirely — that of phase-coherent rhythms, drift, and cross-scale timing constraints. This paper argues that the persistent puzzles of selfhood arise from conflating these domains and offers a substrate-level redefinition of identity. -/- I develop the thesis that identity is a coherence (...)
- Identity and the Epistemology of Grounding.Alexander Skiles - forthcoming - In Damian Aleksiev & Yannic Kappes, The Epistemology of Grounding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Beyond Essence: Ontological Instability as the Foundational Axiom for Post-Essentialist Metaphysics (Presentation).Kwan Hong Tan - manuscriptThis presentation articulates a foundational shift in metaphysics from traditional essentialism to a post-essentialist framework. It argues that the classical model of reality, composed of substances with fixed essences, is logically untenable, leading to intractable problems concerning change, individuation, and emergence. In its place, the presentation posits Ontological Instability as a foundational axiom, asserting that being is inherently and necessarily defined by dynamic processes rather than static properties. This new paradigm is developed through five core concepts: Fluctuational Entities, Dynamic Assemblages, (...)
- The Fluid Self: Identity, Ego, and the Dance of Ontological Instability (Presentation).Kwan Hong Tan - manuscriptThis presentation challenges the foundational assumption of a stable, unified self that underpins much of traditional Western philosophy and psychology. It introduces the principle of Ontological Instability, which posits that being itself is not a stable state but a process of constant flux and creative becoming. From this premise, the presentation argues that traditional conceptions of a fixed identity and ego are not merely problematic but ontologically impossible. It subsequently outlines a new epistemological framework, Fluctuational Epistemology, which re-conceives knowledge as (...)
- Hylomorphism and Persons in Odd Situations.James Dominic Rooney - 2025 - Scientia et Fides 13 (2):105-134.Hylomorphism provides an explanation of material composition: the material parts, the Xs, will compose a whole, a Y, belonging to a given natural kind, when those parts are characterized by a substantial form. While there are a number of those who hold that each human person is identical with a human animal – ‘animalists’ – most of these are not hylomorphists. One could worry that hylomorphism contributes little unique to debates about personal identity, collapsing into either a form of property (...)
- Equative Sentences: Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives.Isabelle Roy & Michael Murez - forthcoming - Annual Review of Linguistics.Equative sentences like Hesperus is Phosphorus are interesting not only because they convey information about identity but also because of the atypical linguistic means they employ to do so. An equative sentence appears to be composed of a pair of referential singular terms (grammatical arguments) and to lack a logical predicate. Yet in the absence of such a predicate, how can equatives constitute well-formed, meaningful sentences? This rarely acknowledged “problem of symmetry” is assumed to have an obvious predicativist solution, according (...)
- Self and Identity by Trenton Merricks. [REVIEW]Roy W. Perrett - 2022 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2022.Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - Eyes Open: Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Easter Eggs.Eline Kuipers - 2024 - In Catherine M. Robb, Georgie Mills & William Irwin, Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department. The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. pp. 19-27.Taylor Swift is (among other things) famous for her ingenious way of hiding announcements and references, and is known to hide these Easter eggs in almost everything she does and creates. Her fanbase is renowned for thoroughly unraveling and discussing these shrouded mysteries. This chapter investigates the nature of Easter eggs, why they are so intriguing, and what causes Swifties to spend hours trying to find and interpret them. It discusses the parasocial relationships that occur between fans and Taylor Swift, (...)
- On Two Explanatory Identity Criteria: One for Individuals, the Other for Properties.Matteo Nizzardo & J. J. Snodgrass - forthcoming - Analysis.Many philosophers believe that identity facts are non-fundamental facts, facts grounded in other facts. In this paper, we discuss what might ground the identity facts for individuals and properties by examining two explanatory identity criteria. One criterion, which we call the Explanatory Leibniz’s Law, is for individuals. The other, which we call the Explanatory Intensional Criterion, is for properties. We argue that, when combined with the widely accepted claim that grounding chains do not contain loops, these two criteria give rise (...)
- Russian worldview / Российское мировоззрение.Pavel Simashenkov - 2025 - Основы Российской Государственности: Учебник 1:118-142.Worldview concepts. The image of Russia in consciousness and culture: author's edition of chapters from the book Мировоззренческие концепции. Образ России в сознании и культуре: авторская редакция глав из книги Основы российской государственности: учебник / под ред. Е.Е. Тонкова, В.Ю. Туранина. — Москва: Проспект, 2026. С. 118-142.
- The presentist four-dimensionalist conception of the self in Guo Xiang’s commentary.Linhe Han & Xinyi Zhan - 2025 - Asian Philosophy:1-15.Guo Xiang 郭象 made an innovative development of the Zhuangzian no-self view. This paper analyzes Guo’s conception of the self through the lens of contemporary metaphysics, arguing that his rejection of the conventional understanding of the self for ordinary people corresponds with presentist four-dimensionalism. By asserting that the previous self is not the present self, Guo rejected the notion of an enduring self across time. This idea corresponds with the four-dimensionalist account of persistence. By claiming that the previous self has (...)
- (2 other versions)Relative Identity.Ilexa Yardley - 2025 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.Relative Identity is Only Accessible via Motionless Computing.
- Persistence.Christian Kanzian (ed.) - 2007 - Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.Preface The problem of persistence is as old as the tradition of systematic ontology: How can we explain that the middle-sized standard objects of ...
- (1 other version)Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics.David B. Haley - 2017 - New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Frege on Identity and Identity Statements: 1884/1903.Matthias Schirn - 2025 - History and Philosophy of Logic 46 (3):365-386.In this essay, I first solve solve a conundrum and then deal with criteria of identity, Leibniz's definition of identity and Frege's adoption of it in his (failed) attempt to define the cardinality operator contextually in terms of Hume's Principle in Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik. I argue that Frege could have omitted the intermediate step of tentatively defining the cardinality operator in the context of an equation of the form ‘NxF(x) = NxG(x)'. Frege considers Leibniz's definition of identity to be (...)
- Alpay Algebra VI: The Universal Semantic Virus and Transfinite Embedding Alignment.Faruk Alpay - manuscriptIn this paper, we explore the emergent properties of artificial intelligence (AI) identity through a novel framework of self-convergent fixed-point dynamics in transfinite ordinal iterations. Drawing on principles from categorical logic and computational semantics, we formalize AI selfhood as the unique minimal fixed point $\phi^\infty$ of a monotonic endofunctor $\phi$ operating on a complete lattice of agent states. Under broad conditions of continuity and monotonicity, we prove that iterative self-updates converge transfinitely to a stable identity state, encapsulating the agent's invariant (...)
- Individuals and Non-Individuals in Quantum Theory.Décio Krause & Jonas R. B. Arenhart (eds.) - forthcoming - Cham: Springer.This book provides new approaches to the debate on individuality and non-individuality in quantum mechanics, with chapters written by leading experts in the field. A significant issue in the philosophy of quantum mechanics, the choice between individuality and non-individuality, and the well-known metaphysical underdetermination between these options in quantum theory, receive here new treatment, including metaphysical, logical, and methodological analyses. Scholars and students engaged in the philosophy of quantum mechanics and the metaphysics of science, as well as philosophers concerned with (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- A Trustworthiness-based Metaphysics of Artificial Intelligence Systems.Andrea Ferrario - 2025 - Facct '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Acm Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.Modern AI systems are man-made objects that leverage machine learning to support our lives across a myriad of contexts and applications. Despite extensive epistemological and ethical debates, their metaphysical foundations remain relatively under explored. The orthodox view simply suggests that AI systems, as artifacts, lack well-posed identity and persistence conditions—their metaphysical kinds are no real kinds. In this work, we challenge this perspective by introducing a theory of metaphysical identity of AI systems. We do so by characterizing their kinds and (...)
- Prime Resonance Identity.Devin Bostick - manuscriptThis paper proposes a foundational shift in how human identity, emergence, and intelligence are modeled. Rather than viewing individuals as symbolic agents embedded in sociocultural hierarchies, we frame each human as a prime-indexed chiral node—denoted as Cₙ—within a dynamic swarm lattice. These nodes are not defined by traits, narratives, or categories, but by their structural role in the resonance architecture of emergence. Drawing from the CODES framework (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems), we establish that identity is not a static label, (...)
- Parthood Without Mereology.M. Botti - 2024 - Dissertation, Columbia UniversityObjects have, and themselves are, parts. If we endorse a sufficiently liberal notion of object, anything is an object and anything, excluding the universe, is a part of some larger one. If we think that the universe, too, is an object, then any object is a part of it. What is it, then, for an object to be a part? Contra the orthodoxy, in my dissertation I argue that to be a part is no more a relation than to exist (...)
- Renovation and mereorganic continuity.Aleksey Kardash - 2025 - Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity 10 (1):95-103.The author clarifies nature of the property of merorganic continuity and demonstrates its applicability not only to the question of survival and personal identity, but also to the question of demarcation of reconstruction and restoration. The author also responds to the remarks and criticisms of Roman Kochnev and Konstantin Morozov related to the publication of his previous article.
- The Armchair Philosopher Does Not Exist.Rex Eloquens - 2025 - Blog Article(S).This paper will attempt to elucidate a problem present from the 20th century onwards: that is, a gatekeeping of what it means to be a philosopher, and the objective of this essay is to show that the term “armchair philosopher” is the direct result of such gatekeeping, when in reality, philosophy is not about prestigious titles, or even the institution one attends or has attended; it is about thinking and offering new perspectives, a novel idea that perhaps shows what another (...)
- Teletransporter and origami.Aleksey Kardash - 2024 - Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity 9 (1):102-107.The author criticizes the thought experiment about survival in a teletransporter. The weakness of the experiment lies in the implicit dualism and the uncritical premise of multiple implementations in the conditions. The assumption about the qualitative identity of bodies after teleportation through the category of mereorganic continuity is criticized.
- Cusanus on the Doctrine of the Image of God: Human Mind as the Living Image, Equality, and Identity in Difference.Berk Özcangiller - 2024 - Ankara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Dergisi 65 (2):553-582.The relationship between God and humans has been a matter of controversy that interests both philosophers and theologians alike. Establishing a relationship between the infinite God and finite human is particularly challenging if one admits that God and humans are substantially different from each other. The biblical doctrine of the image of God responds to this challenge by stating that the relationship between God and humans is a kind of likeness or assimilation. This doctrine does not only establish the nature (...)
- Difference Between the Existential Quantifier and the Existence Predicate According to Mario Bunge.Martín Orensanz - 2024 - Mεtascience: Scientific General Discourse 3:52-66.Most analytic philosophers believe that the existential quantifier, ∃, has ontological import. Mario Bunge was one of the first thinkers to challenge this view. He traces a distinction between the quantifier ∃ and a first-order existence predicate. Furthermore, he acknowledges two kinds of existence: real and conceptual. One of the reasons for accepting Bunge’s proposal is that it can do justice to statements about fictional entities, which is something that rival proposals do not seem to be capable of doing. Additionally, (...)
- A Place for Artifacts.Manuele Dozzi - unknownIn this paper, I show how it is possible to allow for the existence of artifacts within a neo-Aristotelian conceptual framework. In order to do this, I show the main features of the mainstream Quinean approach to ontology, I then expose the main features of the neo-Aristotelian metaphysics and introduce some key notions such as sortal concepts and criteria of identity, and finally, I propose a criterion of identity for artifacts based on Evnine’s doctrine of amorphism. I also propose a (...)
- Bleeding Fingers: An Existentialist Lament Regarding Technological Evolution.A. Zachman - manuscriptAs a member of the so-demarcated 'Generation Z,' I have been blessed/damned with a front-row seat to the technological evolution kicked off by the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020, and have succeeded to varying degrees in recognizing its effects and responding to them with the efficiency and care that my neurological soul deserves. Jean-Paul Sartre's conception of bad faith provides an excellent scalpel for the dissection of such a quasi-biological progression, and in this paper I analyze the third dimension of bad (...)
- Polarisatie en de Capitoolbestorming.Naomi Kloosterboer & Rik Peels - 2024 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 116 (1):4-23.Polarization and the Insurrection: The relation between identity and ideology in violent right-wing extremism The Capitol Hill Insurrection on January 6, 2021, in Washington has been, to many, a shocking and inconceivable event. On the face of it, far right ideologies, both in their extreme and radical varieties seem to play a crucial role here. Evidence from interviews with insurrectionists, however, suggests otherwise. Research on polarization in the United States and on radicalization into violent extremism also emphasizes identity over ideology (...)
- Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume's Thought.Lorne Falkenstein - 2024 - New York: Routledge.David Hume’s philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief. This book reconciles this conflict by showing that Hume intended his scepticism to be remedial. It immunizes us against the influence of “unphilosophical” causes of belief, determining us to proportion our beliefs to the evidence. In making this case, this book develops Humean positions on topics Hume did not discuss in detail but that are of (...)
- One-to-One Fellow-Feeling, Universal Identification and Oneness, and Group Solidarities.Lawrence Blum - 2017 - In Philip J. Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, Victoria S. Harrison, Hagop Sarkissian & Eric Schwitzgebel, The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self. New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press. pp. 106-119.Unusual among Western philosophers, Schopenhauer explicitly drew on Hindu and especially Buddhist traditions inhis moral philosophy. He saw plurality, especially the plurality of human persons, as a kind of illusion; in reality all is one, and compassionate acts express an implicit recognition of this oneness. Max Scheler retains the transcendence of self aspect of compassion but emphasizes that the subject must have a clear, lived sense of herself as a distinct individual in order for that transcendence to take place properly. (...)
- Grounding identity in existence.Ezra Rubenstein - 2024 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (1):21-41.What grounds the facts about what is identical to/distinct from what? A natural answer is: the facts about what exists. Despite its prima facie appeal, this view has received surprisingly little attention in the literature. Moreover, those who have discussed it have been inclined to reject it because of the following important challenge: why should the existence of some individuals ground their identity in some cases and their distinctness in others? (Burgess 2012, Shumener 2020b). This paper offers a sustained defense (...)
- How It All Depends: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Huayan Buddhism.Li Kang - 2025 - In Justin Tiwald, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 335-351.Few would deny that something ontologically depends on something else. Given that something depends on something, what depends on what? Huayan Buddhism 華嚴宗, a prominent Chinese Buddhist school, is known for its extensive thesis of interdependence, according to which everything depends on everything else. This intriguing thesis is entangled with seemingly paradoxical claims that everything is not only identified with everything else but also contained within it. Moreover, the radical thesis of interdependence entails that dependence is pervasive and symmetric. In (...)
- The essence of the mental.Ray Buchanan & Alex Grzankowski - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (4):1061-1072.Your belief that Obama is a Democrat would not be the belief that it is if it did not represent Obama, nor would the pain in your ankle be the state that it is if, say, it felt like an itch. Accordingly, it is tempting to hold that phenomenal and representational properties are essential to the mental states that have them. But, as several theorists have forcefully argued (including Kripke (1980) and Burge (1979, 1982)) this attractive idea is seemingly in (...)
- Singularitas dan Identitas dalam Cerpen “Aroma Tanah Moncongloe”.Wahyu Gandi G. - 2022 - Jentera: Jurnal Kajian Sastra 11 (2):306-317.This study aims to uncover the praxis of singularity and self-identity (kedirian) as presented in a short story titled Aroma Tanah Moncongloe (ATM). This research uses a descriptive-qualitative method by applying the post-marxist perspective by Antonio Negri and Jean-Luc Nancy. The results signified that there is a labeling of identity constructed by the state as a form of uniformity that is in line with the empire or external power. This uniformity can be seen from the identity of former political prisoners (...)
- The Identity of Reason.Stephen Engstrom - 2022 - In Giovanni Pietro Basile & Ansgar Lyssy, System and freedom in Kant and Fichte. New York, NY: Routledge.At his point of entry into practical philosophy, Kant remarked that just as theoretical philosophy must be grounded in a critical investigation of theoretical reason, practical philosophy must be grounded in a critical investigation of practical reason. He added, however, that the latter investigation must also exhibit practical reason’s “unity” with theoretical “in a common principle,” because “in the end there can be only one and the same reason, which must be distinguished merely in the application” (G, 4: 391). Soon (...)
- The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference.James Sares - 2023 - In Mary C. Rawlinson & James Sares, What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 17-38.This chapter develops an argument for the ontological significance of sexual difference through Irigaray’s account of “the negative.” Reading Irigaray with Hegel’s logical analysis of finitude as a negative self-reference, or in terms of the dependence of identity on difference, I consider how this ontological negativity functions in two senses: first, in terms of a generational negativity, whereby sexuate beings rely on this difference as their own copulative condition of possibility; and second, in terms of a more general negative self-relation (...)$41.12 used (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)The Ship of Theseus.Ludger Jansen - 2011 - In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone, Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 88–89.$21.99 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct download (2 more)Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
- Liberal Nationalism for Israel: Towards an Israeli National Identity (Review).Robert Elliott Allinson - 2002 - Iyyun 51:81-84.
- Personal Identity and Persistence: An Evolving Bundle of Mental and Physical Features.Aaron Rivera - manuscriptThe problem of personal identity contains various questions and issues, but the main issue is persistence; how can one person remain the same over time? Modern philosophers have proposed various solutions to this problem; however, none are without problems. David Hume rejected the notion of personal identity as fictitious and posited a theory that personal identity is merely a bundle of perceptions which does not remain the same over time. Hume’s approach to personal identity is flawed, and Derek Parfit pushed (...)
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