文档介绍：Personal Identity
Derek Parfit
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 80, No. 1. (Jan., 1971), pp. 3-27.
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Sat Nov 3 11:42:37 2007
PERSONAL IDENTITY1
E CAN, I think, describe cases in which, though we know
W the answer to every other question, we have no idea how
to answer a question about personal identity. These cases are
not covered by the criteria of personal identity that we actually
use.
Do they present a problem?
It might be thought that they do not, because they could never
occur. I suspect that some of them could. (Some, for instance,
might e scientifically possible.) But I shall claim that even
if they did they would present no problem.
My tar