Parfit on fission |
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Authors: | Jens Johansson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Derek Parfit famously defends a number of surprising views about “fission.” One is that, in such a scenario, it is indeterminate
whether I have survived or not. Another is that the fission case shows that it does not matter, in itself, whether I survive
or not. Most critics of the first view contend that fission makes me cease to exist. Most opponents of the second view contend
that fission does not preserve everything that matters in ordinary survival. In this paper I shall provide a critique that
does not rely on either of these contentions. There are other, interrelated reasons to reject Parfit’s defense of the two
theses. In particular, the availability of the following view creates trouble for Parfit: I determinately survive fission,
but it is indeterminate which fission product I am. |
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