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  1. plato.stanford.edu › entries › identity-personalPersonal Identity - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Aug 20, 2002 · 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.

  2. link.springer.com › article › 10Self-Unity, Identification and Self-Recognition | Philosophia

    Sep 24, 2018 · In this paper I argue that two dominant accounts of identification implicated in self-unity (represented respectively by Christine Korsgaard and Harry Frankfurt) fail to acknowledge the significance of a related form of self-unifying activity, self-recognition.

    • Emer O’Hagan
    • emer.ohagan@usask.ca
    • 2019

  3. link.springer.com › referenceworkentry › 10Philosophy of Learning - SpringerLink

    Next, we delineate five major questions that should govern an area of philosophy properly called “philosophy of learning.” Those questions are: (1) Is learning possible?; (2) Is all knowledge acquired through learning?;

  4. plato.stanford.edu › entries › consciousness-unityThe Unity of Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Mar 27, 2001 · The unity of consciousness was a main concern of most philosophers in what is often called the ‘classical modern era’ (roughly, 1600 to 1900), including Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hume (in a way; see below), Reid, Brentano, and James. Consider a classical argument of Descartes’ for mind-body dualism.

    • Andrew Brook, Paul Raymont
    • 2001

  5. personality-psychology.com › philosophyPhilosophy and Personality: The “Self” and Identity

    Philosophy and Personality: The “Self” and Identity. Playing at the intersection between science and art, philosophy and personality are intimately connected with a search for meaning and truth in both the unique and collective aspects of an identity.

  6. oxfordre.com › psychology › displaySelf and Identity | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology

    This article focuses on the “me” that will be referred to interchangeably as either the “self” or “identity.” We define the self as a multifaceted, dynamic, and temporally continuous set of mental self-representations.

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  8. journals.sagepub.com › doi › pdfA Multiple Self Theory of the Mind - SAGE Journals

    These diferent modes of the self, “appear, one after another and side-by-side in the consciousness.”. The sense of a unified self is, there-fore, “a fabricated illusion.”. In object relations theory, outside objects are assimilated into the mind as new mental agencies, sub-structures of the ego.