Intuitions about personal identity: An empirical study

Williams (1970 Williams, B. 1970. The self and the future. The Philosophical Review, 79: 161–180. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) argues that our intuitions about personal identity vary depending on how a given thought experiment is framed. Some frames lead us to think that persistence of self requires persistence of one's psychological characteristics; other frames lead us to think that the self persists even after the loss...