[HTML][HTML] Personal identity and ethics

D Shoemaker - 2005 - plato.stanford.edu
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 …

Transplant thought-experiments: two costly mistakes in discounting them

S Beck - South African Journal of Philosophy= Suid-Afrikaanse …, 2014 - journals.co.za
'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 …

Martha Nussbaum and the foundations of ethics: Identity, morality and thought-experiments

S Beck - South African journal of philosophy, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Martha Nussbaum has argued in support of the view (supposedly that of Aristotle) that we
can, through thought-experiments involving personal identity, find an objective foundation …

Reconsidering a transplant: A response to Wagner

S Beck - South African Journal of Philosophy= Suid-Afrikaanse …, 2016 - journals.co.za
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 …