Michele Pasin / Quotes

I am my baggage

it seems to me that a consistent set of personality traits is not a person. Janet’s metaphors seem to get it exactly wrong. I am my baggage. I am the layers…

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Locke and Reid aim at the wrong target

Although Reid’s objection hits the bullseye, in an important respect both he and Locke are looking at the wrong target.

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Locke's memory criterion of personal identity

Similar thoughts informed one of the first modern advocates of psychological continuity as the key to personal identity, the seventeenth-century philosopher…

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No memory of a previous life

Revealingly, however, there is an absence of any semblance of a personal relationship between Akong II and Akong I. Most obviously, Akong says of his previous…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #reincarnation #memory #personal-identity

Parfit: psychological connectedness and continuity

What makes for a single person over time is therefore, in the formulation of contemporary philosopher Derek Parfit, psychological connectedness and…

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Psychological continuity as overlapping connections

modern advocates of psychological continuity as the basis for personal identity over time see memory as just one of a number of psychological connections over…

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