What justifies our holding one person over another morally responsible for a past action?
Why am I justified in having a special prudential concern for one particular future person …

Who am I? What is a person? What does it take for a person to persist from one time to
another? What is the relation between the mind and the body? These are just some of the …

Judgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions. Family life,
friendships, institutions of justice, and systems of compensation all rely on our ability to …

The aim of this chapter is to articulate the state of the art in the moral psychology of personal
identity. It begins by discussing the major philosophical theories of personal identity …

Many philosophers have taken there to be an important relation between personal identity
and several of our practical concerns (among them moral responsibility, compensation, and …

Philosophy and Personal Relations Page 1 7 Later selves and moral principles* Derek Parfit I
shall first sketch different views about the nature of personal identity, then suggest that the …

In his recent book and earlier articles, Derek Parfit has made an impressive case for the truth
of reductionism with respect to persons. Having strongly argued for this metaphysical thesis …

Do they present a problem? It might be thought that they do not, because they could never
occur. I suspect that some of them could.(Some, for instance, might become scientifically …

We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that
we will carry them out; when we punish someone for a crime, we assume that she is the …

The subject of personal identity is one of the most central and most contested and exciting in
philosophy. Ever since Locke, psychological and bodily criteria have vied with one another …