Personal Identity and Resurrection from the Dead

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Personal Identity and Uploading

Objections to uploading may be parsed into substrate issues, dealing with the computer platform of upload and personal identity. This paper argues that the personal identity issues of uploading are no more or less challenging than those of bodily transfer often discussed in the philosophical literature. It is argued that what is important in personal identity involves both token and type identi...

Utilitarianism and Personal Identity

The enactment of personal identity

The issue of personal identity and its management is a major problematic area for action, communication and representation within the information society. Surprisingly, whereas theorisation of personal identity as an individual and social construct is well-established, theorisation of identity as a technological construct is less well-formulated. This means that whereas technological developmen...

Brain birth and personal identity

The concept of brain birth has assumed a position ofsome significance in discussions on the status ofthe human embryo and on the point in embryonic developmentprior to which experimental procedures may be undertaken on human embryos. This paper reviews previous discussions of this concept, which have placed brain birth at various points between 12 days' and 20 weeks' gestation and which have em...