The Importance of Identity in Philosophy

Identity is one of those things that everybody has a very definitive view about. They don't understand it, and it's easy to confound to them. That's how I think of philosophy. Philosophy that people can't understand is safe for academia. And that's what ParfIt does brilliantly in this essay,. He sets you up with, here's what we know about identity, qualitative, quantitative. This is our common sense notion. Now let's try to figure out how that explains you as a human being.