Namita Nimbalkar

Dear Editors, This is with reference to my paper, ‘John Locke on Personal Identity’, published in Mens Sana Monographs (2011) Vol. 9, No 1, Jan–Dec 2011 (pp. 268-75[2]). I thank the editors for bringing it to my notice that the citations in the paper were inadequate. Kindly find the necessary citations which were earlier not […]

Abstract John Locke speaks of personal identity and survival of consciousness after death. A criterion of personal identity through time is given. Such a criterion specifies, insofar as that is possible, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the survival of persons. John Locke holds that personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity. He considered