What matters in survival : personal identity and other possibilities / Douglas Ehring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehring, Douglas, 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Survival.

Normativity (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Personal identity and other possibilities

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

For common sense there is such a relation and it is identity, but according to Parfit common sense is wrong in this respect. Identity is not what matters in survival. Douglas Ehring argues that this Parfitian thesis does not go far enough. The result is the highly radical view 'Survival Nihilism', according to which nothing matters in survival.

Contents:

Introduction

The divergence argument

Fission and shared stages

Fission and indeterminacy

Generalizing from fission

The triviality argument

The non-triviality principle and objections to its application

Epilogue: possible implications for rationality and ethics.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-191559-9

0-19-264754-7

0-19-264753-9

OCLC:

1249472083