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Abstract:I examine Derek Parfit's claim that it doesn't matter whether he survives in the future, if someone survives who is psychologically connected to him by “Relation R.” Thus, were his body to perish and be replaced by an exact duplicate, both physically and psychologically identical to him, this would be just as good as “ordinary” survival. Parfit takes the corollary view that replacement of loved ones by exact duplicates is no loss. In contrast, Peter Unger argues that we place nontransferable value in the lives of individual persons. I argue that the question of the preferability of Relation R over identity is unanswerable at present, as such hypothetical situations are too far removed from our experience to allow any reliable responses. I contrast cases involving artifacts, where we can make informed judgments concerning whether a given object's value would be transferred to a du

ISSN:0038-4283    

DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01720.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

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AbstractIt has recently been argued that there is probably no theory of punishment to be found in Immanuel Kant's writings, but that “if one selects carefully among the many remarks and insights that Kant has left us about crime and punishment, one might even be able to build such an edifice from the bricks provided.”1In this paper, I seek to provide part of a foundation of a Kantian theory of punishment, one which is consistent with many, if not all, of Kant's own insights on justice. Finally, I assess the plausibility of Kant's v

ISSN:0038-4283    

DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01721.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

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AbstractIn this paper it is argued that the experimental data on commissurotomy patients provide no grounds for denying the singular personhood of commissurotomy patients. This is because, contrary to most philosophical accounts, there is no “unity of consciousness” discriminating condition for singular personhood that is violated in the case of commissurotomy patients, and because no contradictions arise when singular personhood is ascribed to commissurotomy patie

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DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01722.x

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年代:1993

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DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01723.x

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年代:1993

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DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01724.x

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年代:1993

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DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01725.x

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年代:1993

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DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01726.x

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年代:1993

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DOI:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1993.tb01727.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

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