Reasons and persons / by Derek Parfit.
By: Parfit, Derek.
Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1984Description: xv, 543 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780198249085 (pbk).Subject(s): Ethics | Rationalism | SelfGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [533]-540.
Theories that are indirectly self-defeating -- Practical dilemmas -- Fice mistakes in moral mathematics -- Theories that are directly self-defeating -- Two possibilities -- The best objection to the self-intersest theory -- The appeal to full relativity -- Different attitudes to time -- Why we should reject S -- What we believe ourselves to be -- How we are not what we believe -- Why our identity is not what we believe -- Why our identity is not what matters -- What does matter -- Personal identity and rationality -- Personal identity and morality -- The non-identity problem -- The repugnant conclusion -- The absurd conclusion -- The mere addition paradox.