Alexander Pruss's Blog

Some cases of partial amnesia present a prima facie problem for memory theories of personal identity (the theorist will bite the bullet on ...

Unlike soul-based theories, the memory, brain and body theories of personal identity are subject to fusion cases. There are four options as ...

I find very persuasive arguments like this: If theory T is true, then whether I exist now depends on some future events. Facts about wha...

One theory about what happens in cases of personal fission is this. If a person is split, then there were two colocated people there all alo...

Suppose that (a) memory connections are constitutive of personal identity and (b) fission of memories destroys a person. If one accepts (a),...

My being seated now is causally explained by my having sat down. Suppose that my being seated now is an essential property of me...

It is a truism that the punishment should follow the crime. Thus, even if you know with enough certainty for court conviction that Smith wi...

Standard memory theories of personal identity says that what is necessary and sufficient for identity is a chain of memories (or,...