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The Psychological Approach to Personal Identity: Non-Branching and the Individuation of Person Stages
No full textThe writers address the psychological approach to personal identity. This approach attempts to analyze our identity over time in terms of a psychological relation holding between temporal stages of a continuant person. They begin by discussing some logical constraints on this psychological approach. They then consider a problem for the psychological approach that arises in fission cases, showing that this problem requires a nonbranching clause in a psychological account of the copersonality relation. Next, they consider some difficulties in formulating such a clause. Finally, they refute a recently proposed formulation of nonbranching, in the process raising new questions about the individuation of person stages