The Unimportance of Being Any Future Person

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Unimportance of Being Any Future Person

AU - Gustafsson, Carl Johan Eric

N1 - © The Author(s) 2017.

PY - 2018/3/1

Y1 - 2018/3/1

N2 - Derek Parfit’s argument against the platitude that identity is what matters in survival does not work given his intended reading of the platitude, namely, that what matters in survival to some future time is being identical with someone who is alive at that time. I develop Parfit’s argument so that it works against the platitude on the intended reading.

AB - Derek Parfit’s argument against the platitude that identity is what matters in survival does not work given his intended reading of the platitude, namely, that what matters in survival to some future time is being identical with someone who is alive at that time. I develop Parfit’s argument so that it works against the platitude on the intended reading.

KW - Division

KW - Fission

KW - Indeterminacy

KW - Personal identity

KW - Survival

KW - What matters

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014594059&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s11098-017-0890-9

DO - 10.1007/s11098-017-0890-9

M3 - Article

SN - 0031-8116

VL - 175

SP - 745

EP - 750

JO - Philosophical Studies

JF - Philosophical Studies

IS - 3

ER -