Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 9, 1984; 593-622.
In this paper I develop a causal account of identity. Although I believe the account applies both to persons and to physical objects, I focus on physical objects here. I argue that there are various sorts of cases that rival accounts of the transtemporal identity of physical objects cannot explain but which the causal account can. Along the way I defend the account against various natural objections.
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