Locke on Personal Identity

Winkler, Kenneth P.

doi:10.1353/hph.1991.0041

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“…It is the preservation of the consciousness that accounts for the person's past, present, and future selves (cf . Winkler, 1991) . It accounts for individuals' need to develop their self-identity, an idea of themselves; which, although situated within relational and social spaces (Adams & Marshall, 1996;Schwartz et al ., 2011), is determined by them for them .…”

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Identity and acculturation: The case for Africa

Adams

Vijver

2017

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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Identity and acculturation: The case for Africa

Adams

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2017

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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“…2 Authors such as Antonia LoLordo (2012) and Udo Thiel (2011) follow Law in emphasising the forensic nature of personhood and argue that Locke's persons are modes. 3 Another group of authors, including Kenneth Winkler (1991) and, more recently, Jessica Gordon-Roth (2015) rely on Locke's claims about powers and agency and point out that persons are substances. 4 In this paper I aim to present an 1 John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding, ed.…”

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Locke's Person is a Relation

Simendic¹

2015

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John Locke added a chapter called ‘Of Identity and Diversity’ to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1694) [hereafter E or Essay] in which he presented a revolutionary account of persons and personal identity. Chapter II.xxvii proved to be an immensely important contribution to the philosophical scholarship of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and remains the focus of a substantial and growing body of commentary. Within the abundant literature on Locke’s views on personhood, a number of contemporary accounts endeavour to answer a seemingly simple question— what is Locke’s person? Locke gives no explicit answer but offers three possibilities. ‘Complex ideas’, Locke writes, ‘may be all reduced under these three Heads’ (E, II.xxi.3) and these three are: modes, substances and relations.

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“…The Kinds Problem, or something like it, is noted at least in passing byUzgalis (1990),Winkler (1991),Bolton (1994), andKaufman (2007). Kaufman has developed the problem most forcefully and so my reconstruction of the problem centers on his formulation.10 There are, of course, disputes about how to take Locke's views on language, meaning, etc.…”

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Locke on Individuation and Kinds

STENBERG

2018

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Locke has been accused of endorsing a theory of kinds that is inconsistent with his theory of individuation. This purported inconsistency comes to the fore in Locke’s treatment of cases involving organisms and the masses of matter that constitute them, for example, the case of a mass constituting an oak tree. In this essay, I argue that this purported problem, known as ‘The Kinds Problem’, can be solved. The Kinds Problem depends on the faulty assumption that nominal essences include only features observable at a time t. Once this assumption is rejected, new candidates open up for the relevant difference in the world that is included in the nominal essence of e.g. mass but not oak tree. And I argue that there is at least one good candidate for the extrinsic feature observable only over time in which the mass differs from the oak it constitutes, namely its persistence conditions. The Kinds Problem can be solved.

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Locke on Personal Identity

Cited by 87 publications

References 13 publications

Identity and acculturation: The case for Africa

Identity and acculturation: The case for Africa

Locke's Person is a Relation

Locke on Individuation and Kinds

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