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  1. One popular criterion, associated with Plato, Descartes and a number of world religions, is that persons are immaterial souls or pure egos. On this view, persons have bodies only contingently, not necessarily; so they can live after bodily death.

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    The lecture focuses on the question of the metaphysical key to personal identity. What does it mean for a person that presently exists to be the very same person in the future? The first approach to answering this question is the “soul theory,” that is, the key to being the same person is having the same soul.

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    One approach to the problem of personal identity sees persons as simple, immaterial substances, or souls, and defines personal identity in terms of the persistence of a single soul.

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    What is the soul theory?
    The soul theory is the belief that the soul is the immaterial essence and totality of who you are at a core level – it is your true nature. To understand what the soul theory implies, we must first establish a clear definition of the soul, which is not equivalent to the spirit.

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    Does a soul explain personal identity?
    Again, the soul “explanation” would seem to be rendered unnecessary insofar as it adds nothing to the account of personal identity. Even if persons did not have souls, we could explain personal identity via God: God makes a particular soulless body the same person over time. I have argued that the soul theory of personal identity faces a dilemma.

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    Does the soul theory offer an account of soul identity?
    Either the soul theory cannot offer an account of soul identity or it cannot explain why souls attach to bodies, thus offering at best an incomplete account of personal identity. Assuming that people persist over time, souls do not explain that persistence.

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    What is personal identity theory?
    Personal identity theory is the philosophical confrontation with the most ultimate questions of our own existence: who are we, and is there a life after death? In distinguishing those changes in a person that constitute survival from those changes in a person that constitute death, a criterion of personal identity through time is given.

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    Is the soul theory reductive?
    The soul theory is plainly not reductive insofar as it does not seek to explain personal identity in purely physical terms, but one might think that this is a small price to pay for an account of personal identity. But I argue that the soul theory faces serious difficulties and is thus no improvement over reductive views.

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    Is the soul theory stipulative?
    Without an explanation of that fact, the soul theory’s account of personal identity is at best partial and arguably stipulative.

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    Personal Identity Series: The Soul Theory - Arcadia

    Jan 10, 2022 · Explore the soul theory of personal identity, which claims that the soul is the immaterial essence and totality of who you are. Learn about the Stoic and reincarnation perspectives, as well as the objections and limitations …

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    A dilemma for the soul theory of personal identity

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    Clinical cases and metaphysical theories of personal identity

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    A Dilemma for the Soul Theory of Personal Identity

    Jan 1, 2017 · One traditional explanation is the soul theory, according to which persons persist in virtue of their nonphysical souls. I argue here that this view faces a new and arguably insuperable...

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