| Literature DB >> 29728314 |
Christina Starmans1, Paul Bloom2.
Abstract
What makes someone the same person over time? There is a growing body of research exploring how people ordinarily think about personal identity. We argue here that many of the experiments in this domain fail to properly distinguish similarity from personal identity, and therefore certain conclusions regarding commonsense intuitions about identity are not supported.Entities:
Keywords: Personal identity; moral self; self; similarity
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Year: 2018 PMID： 29728314 DOI： 10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cogn Sci ISSN： 1364-6613 Impact factor: 20.229