Reasons and persons

Clarendon Press

1984

xv, 543 p.

9780198246152

Part 1. Self-defeating theories --1. Theories that are indirectly self-defeating --2. Practical dilemmas --3. Five mistakes in moral mathematics --4. Theories that are directly self-defeating --5. Conclusions --Part 2. Rationality and time --6. The best objection to the self-interest theory --7. The appeal to full relativity --8. Different attitudes to time --9. Why we should reject --Part 3. Personal identity --10. What we believe ourselves to be --11. How we are not what we believe --12. Why our identity is not what we believe --13. What does matter --14. Personal identity and rationality --15. Personal identity and morality --Part 4. Future generations --16. The non-identity problem --17. The repugnant conclusion --18. The absurd conclusion --19. The mere addition paradox.

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