Jeremy Horne
Department of Philosophy, Newlane University, Utah, USAPublications
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Exact Personal Identity Location
Author(s): Jeremy Horne*
Successfully locating one’s identity requires a multidisciplinary approach. This article describes how neuropsychologists, mathematicians, geneticists, and philosophers join hands in solving the vexing problem of personal identity location. Current personality and values clarification assessments are inadequate for doing this, as they are oriented to descriptions of behaviour, are not individualized, are not validated by what people do (instead of what they think), and do not have physical correlates. The Voris method exemplifies the individualized evaluation of a person’s life theme that exhibits the activities and preferences generated by their identity. Yet, descriptive terms are vague (not quantified and repeatable). Identity, in this manner, is mentation, not a physical entity. The mental (abstract) exists because of the physical (material) and converse.. Read More»
DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.HJ.082424