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dc.contributor.authorWard, D.
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-23T11:01:01Z
dc.date.available2011-11-23T11:01:01Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationWard , D 2011 , ' Personal identity, agency and the multiplicity thesis ' , Minds and Machines , vol. 21 , no. 4 , pp. 497-515 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9256-9
dc.identifier.issn0924-6495
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 458344
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dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84855669315
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/7095
dc.description“The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com” Copyright Springer [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
dc.description.abstractI consider whether there is a plausible conception of personal identity that can accommodate the 'Multiplicity Thesis' (MT), the thesis that some ways of creating and deploying multiple distinct online personae can bring about the existence of multiple persons where before there was only one. I argue that an influential Kantian line of thought, according to which a person is a unified locus of rational agency, is well placed to accommodate the thesis. I set out such a line of thought as developed by Carol Rovane, and consider the conditions that would have to be in place for the possibility identified by MT to be realised. Finally I briefly consider the prospects for MT according to neo-Lockean and animalist views of personhood.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMinds and Machines
dc.subjectagency
dc.subjectanimalism
dc.subjectdissociative identity disorder
dc.subjectinternet addiction
dc.subjectMMOGs
dc.subjectNeo-Lockeanism
dc.subjectpersonal identity
dc.titlePersonal identity, agency and the multiplicity thesisen
dc.contributor.institutionSocial Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Humanities
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