'Brain Death and Technological Change:  Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading'
"In the modern world, whole brain definitions of death arose as a result of the technological deconstruction of death as a unitary phenomenon.  The whole brain definition was at the outset a compromise between those who prefer a neocortical definition, and those who prefer the whole body definition.  This paper argues that the whole brain definition of death is an unwieldy, historical compromise which will unravel as 21st century technologies permit the repair, replacement and manipulation of body, and especially brain, tissue.  These technologies will present anomalies to the whole brain definition which will force us towards, and then beyond, a neocortical definition of death.  New biological and cybernetic technologies will make clear that social life is properly attributed to any biological system with a particular set of subjective experiences - personhood.  These technologies will also create tremendous material incentives for the living to stop treating the permanently unconscious as socially alive."  Maintained by James J. Hughes.

Butler, Joseph — 'The Analogy of Religion.  Appendix I:  Of Personal Identity'
"Whether we are to live in a future state, as it is the most important question which can possibly be asked, so it is the most intellibible one which can be expressed in language.  Yet strange perplexities have been raised about the meaning of that identity, or sameness of person, which is implied in the notion of our living now and hereafter, or in any two successive moments.  And the solution of these difficulties hath been stranger than the difficulties themselves."  Maintained by Canisius College.

Forum on Personal Identity
"The issue of personal identity is debated with increasing frequency; the possibilty of mind uploading lends it direct relevance to our future.  In this Forum, we hope to capture some of the spirit of the debate by presenting two viewpoints, and their application to a variety of cases.  Arguing a modern variation an a classical memory-based view of identity is Joe Strout.  Bruce Zimov will be presenting a case for numerical identity."   With essay, 'The Issue of Personal Identity'.  Maintained by Joe Strout.

The Immateriality of the Soul and Personal Identity:  A Supplement
"Both in his discussion of personal identity and in his discussion of the immateriality of the soul in Book IV of the Essay Locke is agnostic about the immateriality of the soul.   In Book IV he suggests that immateriality is not needed for the great ends of religion, and in Book II he crafts a theory of personal identity that does not require (though it is not inconsistent with) the immateriality of the soul."   Maintained by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Metaphysics — Philosophy Resources
Websites on metaphysics and other philosophical subjects.  Maintained by Qozi.com.

Multiculturalism and Personal Identity
"Multiculturalism and the constitution of people's identities have been matters of intensified political concern for a number of years, and the two subject areas have been seen as intimately connected with each other.  The criticism of monocultural hegemony in our society, in other words, has frequently become linked with a 'politics of identity.'  In what follows I will try to show that the idea of a multicultural society need not and should not be linked with the question of who we are, at least not in the way it is usually done.  I will suggest that the very openness of a genuinely multicultural society precludes the establishment of such things as ethnic, racial, or cultural 'identities.'"   Maintained by Jorn K. Bramann at Frostburg State University.

'Narrative Theory and Personal Identity'
"Person, self, personal identity, self-consciousness, self-knowledge."  Online bibliographies.  Maintained by Canisius College.

Personal Identity — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Personal identity deals with questions about ourselves qua people (or persons).  The most common question is what it takes for us to persist from one time to another.  What is necessary, and what is sufficient, for some past or future being to be you?  But there are other questions of equal interest and importance.  Many are familiar thoughts that occur to everyone at some time:  What am I?  When did I begin?  What will happen to me when I die?  Philosophical discussions of personal identity go right back to the origin of the discipline, and most major figures have had something to say about it."  Maintained by the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University.

'Personal Identity and the Methodology of Imaginary Cases'
"This paper surveys most of the arguments put forward against the reliability of thought experiments in the personal identity debate."  Maintained by Daniel Cohnitz at Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf.

Personal Identity Syllabus — 'The Metaphysics of Persons'
"...an investigation into how we should conceive of ourselves as persons."  Maintained by Christian Perring at the University of Kentucky.

PHI 330 Homepage — Metaphysics
"Syllabus from the Spring of 2000."  Maintained by John W. Carroll at North Carolina State University.

PHL 242|442 — Metaphysics
"This course is a survey of three central issues in contemporary metaphysics:  time, identity and persistence over time, and personal identity."  Maintained by Gabriel Uzquiano at the University of Rochester.

Research Sources on Concepts of Person and Self
"Research Sources on Concepts of Person, Self, and Personal Identity.  Contains several bibliographies and a section of on-line texts."  With bibliography.  Maintained by Shaun Gallagher at Canisius College.

'Staying Alive   The Personal Identity Game'
Exploring concepts of personal identity and continuance through scripted scenarios.  Maintained by The Philosophers' Magazine.

Tannsjo, Torbjorn — 'Morality and Personal Identity'
"In the present paper I investigate some connections between metaphysics and morality.  The point of departure of my discussion are the views put forward on personal identity by Derek Parfit."  Maintained by Lund University Cognitive Science.

Topics in Metaphysics — Personal Identity
"This course will provide a solid, graduate-level historical and systematic introduction to the problem of personal identity."  Maintained by Godehard Bruntrup at Fordham University.

20th WCP:  Persons and Personal Identity
"The papers indexed below were given at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts from August 10-15, 1998."  Maintained by Stephen Dawson at Boston University. .