Journal article
Withering minds – towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia
- Abstract:
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A prominent view on personal identity over time, Jeff McMahan’s ‘Embodied Mind Account’ (2002) holds that we cease to exist only once our brains can no longer sustain the basic capacity to uphold consciousness. One of the many implications of this view on identity persistence is that we continue to exist throughout even the most severe cases of dementia, until our consciousness irreversibly shuts down. In, this paper I argue that, while the most convincing of prominent accounts of personal id...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2021-09-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-08-19
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1191660
- Local pid:
- pubs:1191660
- Deposit date:
- 2021-08-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Lyreskog.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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