Identity

By Williamson, Timothy

Anything whatsoever has the relation of identity to itself, and to nothing else. Things are identical if they are one thing, not two. We can refute the claim ...

Identity, law of

Law of identity

Identity and morality

see Morality and identity.

Identity of persons

see Personal identity.

Cultural identity

By Loughney, John A.

If cultural identity means that a person achieves the fullest humanity within an accepted context of traditional symbols, judgments, values, behaviour and relationships with specific others who self-consciously ...

Morality and identity

By Singer, Ira

Philosophers have drawn connections between morality and identity in two ways. First, some have argued that metaphysical theories about personal identity – theories about what makes one the ...

Personal identity

By Garrett, Brian

What is it to be the same person today as one was in the past, or will be in the future? How are we to describe cases in ...

Personal identity

By Schechtman, Marya

The ‘problem of personal identity’ as it is usually construed in philosophy is a special case of more general questions about the identity of objects over time. There ...

Personal identity

While many areas of philosophy are concerned with issues of personal identity, the investigation most usually referred to as ‘the problem of personal identity’ within analytic philosophy centers ...

Identity theory of mind

see Mind, identity theory of.

Identity of indiscernibles

By Simons, Peter

The principle of the identity of indiscernibles states that objects which are alike in all respects are identical. It is sometimes called Leibniz’s Law. This name is also ...

Mind, identity theory of

By Jackson, Frank

We know that the brain is intimately connected with mental activity. Indeed, doctors now define death in terms of the cessation of the relevant brain activity. The identity ...

Mind, identity theory of

By Hill, Christopher S.

The doctrine that mental states are identical with physical states has long played a prominent role in theories of mind and consciousness. The most widely discussed version of ...

Truth, identity theory of

By Candlish, Stewart

It is sometimes suggested that a fundamental shortcoming of the correspondence theory of truth is that it fails to do justice to the thought that if we are ...

Identity function

Identity of indiscernibles

Indiscernibility of identicals

Identity, postmodern theories of

see Alterity and identity, postmodern theories of.

Alterity and identity, postmodern theories of

By Fenves, Peter

Theories of alterity and identity can be said to be ‘postmodern’ if they challenge at least two key features of modern philosophy: (1) the Cartesian attempt to secure ...

Buddhist philosophy, Japanese

By Maraldo, John C.

Buddhism transformed Japanese culture and in turn was transformed in Japan. Mahāyāna Buddhist thought entered Japan from the East Asian continent as part of a cultural complex that ...

Buddhist philosophy, Korean

By Cho, Sungtaek

Buddhism was transmitted to the Korean peninsula from China in the middle of the fourth century ad. Korea at this time was divided into three kingdoms: Kokuryô, ...