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Carmen Gravino: A person’s identity is the expression of an open process that is constantly in flux. The biological mechanisms of the body interact with the person’s psychological and social life within this process. The construction of identity begins with our everyday connections to the people who are closest to us.
- Viviana Bernath
- 2015
- David DeGrazia, Joseph Millum
- 2021
- 9.1 Introduction. In everyday human life, the identification of persons is so commonplace and straightforward that it might seem odd to suggest that personal identity could be the subject of intense scholarly debate.
- 9.2 Person-Based Accounts and Their Difficulties. Dating back at least to the pre-Socratics in the West, philosophers have wondered about the fact that objects of ordinary experience can change over time yet continue to exist.
- 9.3 The Biological Account. According to the biological account, human persons are most fundamentally living human animals (or organisms).Footnote 5 The idea that we are fundamentally animals has the attraction of cohering with a world view according to which we are part of the natural world.
- 9.4 A Mind-Based Account. According to the mind-based account of personal identity, human persons are essentially beings with minds.Footnote 10 The relevant sense of “mind” here is broad and inclusive; it is sufficient for having a mind in this sense that one has the capacity for any conscious states – any subjective experience – whatsoever.
Personal identity. 7. The biological approach. Despite the predominance of psychological continuity theories there have always been some philosophers who have defended the view that it is biological rather than psychological continuity that actually constitutes personal identity. Earlier versions of this approach tended to argue that personal ...
Aug 20, 2002 · Personal Identity. Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, moral agents, or material objects.
Oct 24, 2024 · Personal identity, in metaphysics, the problem of the nature of the identity of persons and their persistence through time. One makes a judgment of personal identity whenever one says that a person existing at one time is the same as a person existing at another time: e.g., that the president of.
Aug 20, 2002 · This is a file in the archives of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Personal Identity. First published Tue Aug 20, 2002; substantive revision Wed Nov 26, 2008. Personal identity deals with questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or, as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons).
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Apr 10, 2021 · What makes us the same person across time? The different solutions to this problem known as personal identity can be divided into two camps: A numerical and a practical approach. While the former asks for the conditions of identity based on the question “what is a person?,” the latter is concerned with what we identify with in everyday life as essential in order to form a narrative of one ...
