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Introduction to Identity and Persistence Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

Introducing our timeline game, a fun and interactive way to learn about historical events and their chronological order. This game will help players understand the concept of identity and persistence by exploring how events shape our history and impact our present.

  • Players will test their knowledge of historical events by placing them in the correct chronological order.
  • This game will challenge players to think critically about the significance of each event and how they relate to one another.
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  • 380 BCE: Plato introduces the concept of personal identity in his dialogues, such as The Republic
  • 1689: John Locke publishes An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, discussing the concept of personal identity
  • 1739: David Hume publishes A Treatise of Human Nature, discussing personal identity and the self
  • 1781: Immanuel Kant discusses personal identity in his Critique of Pure Reason
  • 1714: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz introduces the concept of identity of indiscernibles
  • 1984: Derek Parfit publishes Reasons and Persons, discussing personal identity and ethics
  • 1991: Daniel Dennett publishes The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity, discussing personal identity
  • 1785: Thomas Reid criticizes Locke's views on personal identity in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
  • 1996: Marya Schechtman introduces the narrative theory of personal identity
  • 1997: Eric T Olson publishes The Human Animal, discussing the persistence of personal identity
  • 1990: Peter Unger publishes Identity, Consciousness and Value, discussing personal identity
  • 1996: Christine Korsgaard discusses personal identity in Sources of Normativity
  • 2007: Shaun Nichols and Joshua Knobe study folk intuitions about personal identity
  • 1989: Diana Tietjens Meyers discusses personal identity in Self, Society, and Personal Choice
  • 2010: Mark Johnston discusses personal identity in Surviving Death
  • 2012: Rory Madden introduces the psychological approach to personal identity
  • 2015: Seth Lazar discusses the ethics of persistence in personal identity
  • 2018: Julie Tannenbaum introduces the biological approach to personal identity
  • 2013: Caroline West discusses personal identity in Personal Identity and Character
  • 2016: Wanja Wiese introduces the phenomenological approach to personal identity

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