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  1. 1 Why we have no idea of the self. Hume begins his discussion of personal identity by, strikingly, denying that we have any idea of the self:

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  2. The current research explores ideas about change and continuity in the domain of the self-concept. We examine people’s beliefs about which features of themselves may change, and in what ways they may change, while still preserving the con-tinuity of the self.1. 1.1. Stability, change, and the self-concept.

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  3. Within his large work “Reasons and Persons”, Derek Parfit drafts a concept of Personal Identity examining the questions concerning what a person is and in what a person’s existence over time consists. Thereby, he intends to prove Reductionism to be the sole logically

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  4. Jan 1, 2017 · Personal identity is framed as an active agent, the “I,” that sorts through and organizes self-relevant information. Self-concept clarity is framed as the object, the “me,” that represents the...

  5. Jun 21, 2021 · After delineating key concepts and offering reasons why personality psychologists should care about self and identity processes, we highlight important empirical discoveries that are of special...

  6. In the chapter of the Essay on Human Understanding entitled ‘Of identity and diversity’, Locke explains what it is for things of various kinds to be the same thing over time. The problem that he is addressing here can be put like this.

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  8. Aug 18, 2020 · Discussing Paul’s approach in light of the notion of personal identity has two objectives: getting a better understanding of Paul’s concept of “personally transformative experiences” on the one hand and rendering the concept of personal identity more precise on the other hand.