Abstract

 
 
 In his recent paper exploring Locke’s account of identity and diversity in Essay II. xxvii, Gideon Yaffe demonstrates that two interpretations of Locke’s theory of personal identity, the simple memory theory and Kenneth Winkler’s ‘subjective constitution theory’, both fail the test of transitivity. He then goes on to offer his own interpretation: the ‘susceptibility-to-punishment theory’ (223–9). I will argue that, in addition to its inherent implausibility and its dubiousness as an interpretation of Locke, the susceptibility- to-punishment theory fails to account for the transitivity of identity.
 
 
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