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Lecture 13 - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?

This video was recorded at YALE PHIL 176 - Death with Professor Shelly Kagan. The personality theory is revised to state that the key to personal identity is having the same personality provided that there is no branching, that is, provided there is no transfer or duplication of the same personality from one body to another. Similar "no branching" requirements are added to the other theories as well. At the end of class, Professor Kagan suggests a shift from thinking about the survival of the soul in terms of "what does it take to survive?" to "what is it that matters in survival?". Reading assignment: Martin, Robert. "The Identity of Animal and People." In There are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book: A Sourcebook of Philosophical Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002. pp. 223-226 Resources Figures 13.1-13.2 [PDF]

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Author:: Shelly Kagan, Department of Philosophy, Yale University
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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