Can there be spatially coincident entities of the same kind?

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-22

  Hershenov, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 33645781438     PISSN: 00455091     EISSN: 19110820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2003.10716533     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. For the traditional view, see John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Peter Nidditch, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1975), 328
2. The richest recent defense is by Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000)
3. For a fuller list of references, see Eric Olson, The Human Animal: Identity Without Psychology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997), 175 n. 3
4. Dean Zimmerman, 'Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution,' Philosophical Review 104 (1995), 90
5. Michael Burke, 'Copper Statues and Pieces of Copper,' Analysis 52 (1992) 12-17
6. and W.R. Carter, 'Our Bodies, Our Selves,' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 65 (1998) 308-19
7. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 328
8. Christopher Hughes, 'Same-Kind Coincidence and the Ship of Theseus,' Mind 106 (1997) 53-67
9. Allan Gibbard, 'Contingent Identity,' Journal of Philosophical Logic 4 (1975) 187-221
10. Oderberg, 'Coincidence Under a Sortal,' 157-9
11. Oderberg, 'Coincidence Under a Sortal,' 158
12. This is a modification of Judith Thomson's car example in her 'Statue and the Clay,' Nous 32 (1998) 149-73
13. Hughes, 'Same Kind Coincidence and the Ship of Theseaus,' 59-60. Hughes mentions that E.J. Lowe advances an account of assumptions similar to the Unger-in-spired one that I present later in this paper
14. My discussion of assimilation is indebted to Peter Unger's Identity, Consciousness, and Value (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991), 147-56
15. Richard Cartwright is the locus classicus for this type of response. See his 'Scattered Objects' in Analysis and Metaphysics, K. Lehrer, ed. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel 1975) 153-71
16. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1983), 298-9
17. Baker offers a constitution solution to the problem of spatially coincident thinking beings in her Persons and Bodies. Shoemaker offers a different constitution solution to the same problem in his 'Self, Body and Coincidence,' Aristotelian Society Supplement (1999) 287-306