Douglas Ehring

What Matters in Survival

Personal Identity and Other Possibilities

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Produktbeschreibung

What matters in survival? What relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual? According to Douglas Ehring's radical view, nothing matters in survival: there is no relation that gives you a basic, foundational normative reason for prudential concern.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 141mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780192894717
• ISBN-10: 0192894714
• Artikelnr.: 60888785

Autorenporträt

Douglas Ehring is the William Edward Easterwood Professor of Philosophy at Southern Methodist University. His publications include Tropes (2011) and Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Divergence Argument
2: Fission and Shared Stages
3: Fission and Indeterminacy
4: Generalizing from Fission
5: The Triviality Argument
6: The Non-Triviality Principle and Objections to its Application
Epilogue: Possible Implications for Rationality and Ethics
Bibliography