Sameness and the self: Philosophical and psychological considerations. Klein, S. B. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:29, 2014.
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In this paper I examine the concept of cross-temporal personal identity (diachronicity). This particular form of identity has vexed theorists for centuries-e.g., how can a person maintain a belief in the sameness of self over time in the face of continual psychological and physical change? I first discuss various forms of the sameness relation and the criteria that justify their application. I then examine philosophical and psychological treatments of personal diachronicity (for example, Locke's psychological connectedness theory; the role of episodic memory) and find each lacking on logical grounds, empirical grounds or both. I conclude that to achieve a successful resolution of the issue of the self as a temporal continuant we need to draw a sharp distinction between the feeling of the sameness of one's self and the evidence marshaled in support of that feeling.
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abstract = {In this paper I examine the concept of cross-temporal personal identity (diachronicity). This particular form of identity has vexed theorists for centuries-e.g., how can a person maintain a belief in the sameness of self over time in the face of continual psychological and physical change? I first discuss various forms of the sameness relation and the criteria that justify their application. I then examine philosophical and psychological treatments of personal diachronicity (for example, Locke's psychological connectedness theory; the role of episodic memory) and find each lacking on logical grounds, empirical grounds or both. I conclude that to achieve a successful resolution of the issue of the self as a temporal continuant we need to draw a sharp distinction between the feeling of the sameness of one's self and the evidence marshaled in support of that feeling.},
author = {Klein, Stanley B.},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00029},
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issn = {1664-1078},
journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},
pages = {29},
pmid = {24523707},
title = {{Sameness and the self: Philosophical and psychological considerations}},
url = {http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00029/abstract},
volume = {5},
year = {2014}
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