Aug 20, 2002 · My individual personal identity contrasts with my gender, ethnic, and national identity, which consist roughly of the sex, ethnic group, or nation I take myself to belong to and …

Jun 30, 2025 · What is meant by ‘identity’, in the sense the term is used in this entry, is our persistence through time (see the entry on personal identity). In other words, it is the numerical …

Feb 11, 2019 · This entry aims to first get clear on the basics of Locke’s position, when it comes to persons and personal identity, before turning to areas of the text that continue to be debated …

Mar 18, 2009 · Indeed, Reid holds that it is impossible to account for personal identity in any terms other than itself. Personal identity is simple and unanalyzable. Though memory is not …

Mar 18, 2005 · Personal identity is perhaps the most extensively discussed special case of identity. What is it for a person existing at one time to be identical to a person existing at another?

This “personal identity” contrasts with ethnic or national identity, which consists roughly of the ethnic group or nation one takes oneself to belong to and the importance one attaches to this.

Dec 15, 2004 · Much of the debate about identity in recent decades has been about personal identity, and specifically about personal identity over time, but identity generally, and the …

Apr 7, 2014 · It is certainly undeniable that no single discussion of personal identity has done more to shape the current debate than the chapter titled “Of Identity and Diversity” that Locke …

Aug 19, 2003 · There is a long tradition, dating at least from Reid (1785), of arguing that the identity of persons over time is not a matter of convention or degree in the way that the identity …

The term is often used without any clear meaning at all. This entry will avoid it. We will first survey the main questions of personal identity. Most of the entry will then focus on the one that has …