Month: June 2018

Amyloid-β, Tau, and Cognition in Cognitively Normal Older Individuals: Examining the Necessity to Adjust for Biomarker Status in Normative Data

Isabelle Bos, Stephanie J. B. Vos, Willemijn J. Jansen, Rik Vandenberghe, Silvy Gabel, Ainara Estanga, Mirian Ecay-Torres, Jori Tomassen, Anouk den Braber, Alberto Lleó, Isabel Sala, Anders Wallin, Petronella Kettunen, José L. Molinuevo, Lorena Rami, Gaël Chetelat, Vincent de la Sayette, Magda Tsolaki, Yvonne Freund-Levi, Peter Johannsen, The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative , Gerald P. […]

Published on June 26, 2018

If You Become Evil, Do You Die?

De Freitas et al. [1] agree with us about the importance of distinguishing between personal identity and similarity. We agree with them that individuals can be obliterated through severe neurodegeneration and the like: as we put it in our original article [2], ‘There are cases … where it may be thought that a person ceases […]

Published on June 26, 2018

Moral Goodness Is the Essence of Personal Identity

Starmans and Bloom ([1]; henceforth S&B) argue that research on the centrality of morality in people’s intuitions about personal identity does not reveal much about people’s notions of personal identity (whether an individual is the same person at timea and timea+1), but only something about their notions of similarity (how much the person at timea […]

Published on June 26, 2018