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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Derek Parfit |
| ISBN: | 0198246153 9780198246152 019824908X 9780198249085 |
| OCLC Number: | 9827659 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xv, 543 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | by Derek Parfit. |
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