caa a22 4500 445838248 CHVBK 20180317145336.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11023-011-9256-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11023-011-9256-9 Ward Dave School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, AL10 9AB, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK aut Personal Identity, Agency and the Multiplicity Thesis [Elektronische Daten] [Dave Ward] I consider whether there is a plausible conception of personal identity that can accommodate the ‘Multiplicity Thesis' (MT), the thesis that some ways of creating and deploying multiple distinct online personae can bring about the existence of multiple persons where before there was only one. I argue that an influential Kantian line of thought, according to which a person is a unified locus of rational agency, is well placed to accommodate the thesis. I set out such a line of thought as developed by Carol Rovane, and consider the conditions that would have to be in place for the possibility identified by MT to be realised. Finally I briefly consider the prospects for MT according to neo-Lockean and animalist views of personhood. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Agency nationallicence Animalism nationallicence Dissociative identity disorder nationallicence Internet addiction nationallicence MMOGs nationallicence Neo-Lockeanism nationallicence Personal identity nationallicence Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/4(2011-11-01), 497-515 0924-6495 21:4<497 2011 21 11023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9256-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9256-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ward Dave School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, AL10 9AB, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/4(2011-11-01), 497-515 0924-6495 21:4<497 2011 21 11023 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer