This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought
experiment. The author argues that the powers and limits of this methodology can be traced …

'Transplant'thought-experiments, in which the cerebrum is moved from one body to another,
have featured in a number of recent discussions in the personal identity literature. Once …

Jeff McMahan's impressive recent defence of the embodied mind theory of personal identity
in his highly acclaimed work The Ethics of Killing has undoubtedly reawakened belief that …

The notion of original sin has experienced a strong decline in recent decades. This article
presents an argument, based in phenomenology and using the film The Truman Show as a …

This paper is a defence of a psychological view of personal identity against the attack Peter
Unger launches against it in his Identity, Consciousness and Value. Unger attempts to …

werden, dann wird die^-Körper-Person nach dem Körpertausch echte oder vermeintliche
Erinnerungen1 daran haben, den nun realisierten Wunsch geäußert zu haben, und wird …

In this thesis, I argue that the interdependence between personal identity and practical
concerns is overstated. In paradigmatic places where philosophers and common sense …

A statement'S'is indeterminate if and only if the facts do not determine that S, and the facts do
not determine that not-^ S. Statements of non-personal diachronic identity can be …

Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe, Embodied minds : a critical respoense to McMahan on
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