John Locke is famous for popularizing the method of the philosophical thought experiment in
discussions of personal identity; the cases introduced in the second edition of An Essay …

'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 …

In this paper I discuss a set of problems concerning the method of cases as it is used in
applied ethics and in the metaphysical debate about personal identity. These problems stem …

Abstract Thought experiments that concoct bizarre possible world modalities are standard
fare in debates on personal identity. Appealing to intuitions raised by such evocations is …

Should we descry the nature of the self from thought experiments? Shaun Nichols says
'maybe,'but only if we use thought experiments that do not recruit the indexical “I”(non-I …

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 …

In a recent series of papers, Beck and Wagner have been arguing about the general role
that thought experiments can play in the debate on personal identity, showing their …

In assessing whether the above two experiments present a reliable way of talking about
personal identity, I shall turn to criticisms of thought-experiments and see if any or all of them …