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Metaphysics

1 dot point, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

What makes you the same person over time, your body, your memories, or something else?

Personal identity: bodily, psychological and no-self theories

Competing theories of what makes a person the same individual across time, including Locke's memory theory, the bodily criterion, Parfit's reductionism and the Buddhist no-self view, with thought experiments.

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