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Dec 2010
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8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Persona...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Part 8.3. Criticisms of Locke's view of personal identity; if personal identity is dependent on memory then how does forgetting personal history and the concept of false memory change Locke's view of personal identity. 
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