18 ideas
5515 | Imaginary cases are good for revealing our beliefs, rather than the truth [Parfit] |
22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
5516 | Reduction can be by identity, or constitution, or elimination [Parfit, by PG] |
10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
3539 | Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin] |
5514 | Psychologists are interested in identity as a type of person, but philosophers study numerical identity [Parfit] |
1393 | One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit] |
5521 | If my brain-halves are transplanted into two bodies, I have continuity, and don't need identity [Parfit] |
5522 | Over a period of time what matters is not that 'I' persist, but that I have psychological continuity [Parfit] |
1392 | If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit] |
5519 | It is fine to save two dying twins by merging parts of their bodies into one, and identity is irrelevant [Parfit] |
5520 | If two humans are merged surgically, the new identity is a purely verbal problem [Parfit] |
1391 | Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit] |
5518 | It doesn't matter whether I exist with half my components replaced (any more than an audio system) [Parfit] |
6853 | Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R] |
9762 | We should focus less on subjects of experience, and more on the experiences themselves [Parfit] |
20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |
6854 | Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R] |