Almost immediately after the development of quantum statistics, physicists were concerned with the implications for the individuality of particles. Such concerns have been further explored from a variety of perspectives during the past fifteen years or so. My intention in this paper is to briefly lay out the various positions that have been adopted and examine the philosophical consequences of the more general forms of statistics that have also been developed. The status of the spin-statistics theorem within this context has been considered in recent work by Hilborn and Yuca and I shall discuss their analysis within the philosophical framework concerning particle individuality. In particular I shall argue that a well-known philosophical position on this issue appears to be less accommodating to generalized forms of quantum statistics and I shall conclude by discussing the philosophical consequences of the supposed relationship between quantum statistics and spin. ©2000 American Institute of Physics.