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vii 1 ~OOUCTIONANOOVERVlliW 1 2 SEITING THE degree: own identification ANO THE MErAPHYSICS OFMIND 1. advent 6 2. the matter of non-public identification through the years 7 three. The mental Criterion of non-public id through the years 12 four. The Neo-Lockean mental Criterion of non-public identification sixteen five. The Circularity Objection 19 6. difficulties of Logical shape 21 7. the shortcoming of a Third-Person Criterion for Reidentification 23 eight. The harmony of the psychological package 25 nine. The Individuation ofPersons 26 10. The Neo-Lockean Criterion and Physicalism: a 'Natural' Alliance 28 eleven. One 'Solution' to 5 difficulties 35 three PARFIT'S REDUcrIO OF A SUBSTRATUM-ORIENTEO CONCEPfION OF mental CONTINUlTY forty three 1. creation 2. Relation R forty five fifty one three. Relation R and the Neo-Lockian Paradigm four. mental Atomism fifty six sixty one five. The crucial position of Q-Memory within the Neo-Lockean Paradigm sixty four 6. the difficulty with Q-memory seventy four 7. Contents and Contexts. the opposite 4 difficulties seventy nine eight. Conclusions four A CON1ENT-ORIENTEO perception OF mental CONTINUITY eighty two 1. advent eighty three 2. varieties of mental Continuity ninety one three. degrees of N-Continuity ninety three four. The harmony of N-Continuous Sequences. The position of the physique one zero five five. N-Continuity and mental Connectedness 109 6. precis vi five A mental CRI1ERION of private id: THE AVE difficulties REVISITED 1. advent 111 2. Circularity, Q-Memory, and N-Continuity 112 119 three. Narrativity and Logical shape 127 four. Third-Person standards of Reidentification: The function of the physique 5.