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Thought Experiments and Personal Identity: Finding Ourselves book cover

1st Edition

Thought Experiments and Personal Identity Finding Ourselves

By Simon Beck Copyright 2026
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge
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This book provides an essential, comprehensive discussion on thought experiments and how they have featured throughout the history of the personal identity debate in analytic philosophy. Although many philosophical arguments employ thought experiments as a valuable methodological tool, there is a lack of focused discussion on the significant role these experiments play in the personal identity... Read more

1. Introduction: These Bizarre Fictions
2. In the Beginning: Locke, the Prince and the Cobbler
3. Transplant Thought Experiments: For and Against Them
4. Costly Mistakes in Rejecting a Transplant
5. Conflicting Intuitions
6. Other Kinds of Thought Experiments in the Debate: The Puzzle of Parfit’s Puzzle-Cases
7. Thought Experiments and Personal Identity in Other Traditions

Biography

Simon Beck is professor of philosophy at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has published essays in several journals such as Analysis, Metaphilosophy, Philosophical Papers, The South African Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry, the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology and the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

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