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Ideas for 'works', 'The Unimportance of Identity' and 'Are Persons Bodies?'

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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

3238	'Dead person' isn't a contradiction, so 'person' is somewhat vague [Williams,B]

3239	You can only really love a person as a token, not as a type [Williams,B]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 1. Identity and the Self

5514	Psychologists are interested in identity as a type of person, but philosophers study numerical identity [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

5521	If my brain-halves are transplanted into two bodies, I have continuity, and don't need identity [Parfit]

5522	Over a period of time what matters is not that 'I' persist, but that I have psychological continuity [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness

5519	It is fine to save two dying twins by merging parts of their bodies into one, and identity is irrelevant [Parfit]

5520	If two humans are merged surgically, the new identity is a purely verbal problem [Parfit]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

5518	It doesn't matter whether I exist with half my components replaced (any more than an audio system) [Parfit]