Reasons and Persons

By A. Baier. 1984

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The Singularity: a Philosophical Analysis (2010, background): “For example, Parfit (1984) suggests that the original system survives as the left hemisphere and also as the right hemisphere.”
Subjective and Objective Well-Being in Relation to Economic Inputs: Puzzles and Responses (2005, background): “There are many such ‘objective list’ (Parfit 1984) or ‘substantive good’ (Scanlon 1993) theories, usually with great overlaps, and a huge body of quality-of-life research on these various aspects or interpretations of OWB.”
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The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (2019, unknown): “Their preferences seem to run into a non-identity problem, since if a civilizational devastation event had taken place before they were conceived they would almost certainly not have come into existence (Par ﬁ t, 1987).”
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