Good physical experiments conform to the basic methodological standards of experimental
design: they are objective, reliable, and valid. But is this also true of thought experiments …

It is notable when philosophers in one tradition take seriously the work in another and
engage with it. This is certainly the case when Paul Ricoeur engages with the thought of …

Marya Schechtman has raised a series of worries for the Psychological Continuity Theory of
personal identity (PCT) stemming from what Derek Parfit called the'Extreme Claim'. This is …

Brain transplant thought experiments figure prominently in the debate on personal identity.
Such hypotheticals are usually taken to provide support for psychological continuity theories …

When does a human being cease to exist? For millennia, the answer to this question had
remained largely unchanged: death had been diagnosed when heartbeat and breathing …

The aim of this paper is to re-evaluate the manner in which the Ticking Bomb Scenario
(TBS), a thought experiment in philosophical enquiry, has been used in the discussion of the …

Nils-Frederic Wagner takes issue with my argument that influential critics of" transplant"
thought experiments make two cardinal mistakes. He responds that the mistakes I identify …

One of the primary objections to the biological approach revolves around what is known as
the transplant intuition. That is, the allegedly widely shared intuition that if we had our …

African perspectives on personhood and personal identity and their relation to those of the
West have become far more central in mainstream Western discussion than they once were …

Abstract THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS feature heavily in the literature concerning continuity of
self. Reflecting on the functional role they fulfil for such discussions, Bernard Williams (and …