Change and Identity Yoked

Kyoto’s Glocal Identity: Establishing Balance between Identity Change and Persistence

Kyoto is a miniature of Japan; through centuries of experience and persistence, it has maintained the symbols of the country’s civil and cultural identity. The city has demonstrated a collection of Japan’s noble identity and characteristics through its material and spiritual heritage. Kyoto’s rich history and its position have gathered a collection of religion-based works, artistic innovations,...

Identity change and informed consent

In this paper, I focus on a kind of medical intervention that is at the same time fascinating and disturbing: identity-changing interventions. My guiding question is how such interventions can be ethically justified within the bounds of contemporary bioethical mainstream that places great weight on the patient's informed consent. The answer that is standardly given today is that patients should...

Metaphysics of Change and Identity

Several authors have claimed the need of the IS community to theorize the IT-artifact. Additionally, phenomena of ‘change’ in all its facets assume a prominent role in information systems research. This paper is targeting at the intersection of research on change and the IT-artifact. The lack of longitudinal studies in the IS-literature has obscured the challenges of theorizing the IT-artifact ...

Iterated Belief Change and the Levi Identity

Most works on iterated belief change have focussed on iterated belief revision, namely, on how to compute (K∗ x)∗y . However, historically, belief revision has been defined in terms of belief expansion and belief contraction that have been viewed as primary operations. Accordingly, what we should be looking at are constructions like: (K+ x ) + y , (K − x ) + y , (K + x ) − y and (K− x )−y . The...

Constructing identity and participation during technological change