Parfit and the sorites paradox

Philosophical Studies 83 (2):113-20 (1996)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This paper aims to establish that Sorites reasoning, a fundamental part of Parfit's work, is more destructive that he intends. I establish the form that Parfit's arguments take and then substitute premises whose acceptability to Parfit I show. The new argument demonstrates an eliminativism or immaterialism concerning persons which Parfit must find repugnant

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 100,063

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Death by Redescription.Henry Pollock - 2022 - Philosophia 51 (1):309-328.
Sorites On What Matters.Theron Pummer - 2022 - In Jeff McMahan, Timothy Campbell, Ketan Ramakrishnan & Jimmy Goodrich (eds.), Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 498–523.
Strawson, Parfit and impersonality.Scott Campbell - 2000 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (2):207-225.
Does Indeterminacy Matter?Christopher T. Buford - 2013 - Theoria 79 (2):155-166.
Parfit on Personal Identity.Deborah C. Smith - 2001 - Idealistic Studies 31 (2-3):169-181.
Johnston on fission.Brian J. Garrett - 2004 - Sorites 15 (December):87-93.
Parfit and the Russians.Simon Beck - 1989 - Analysis 49 (4):205-209.
We Are Not Replicable: A Challenge to Parfit’s View.Amihud Gilead - 2014 - International Philosophical Quarterly 54 (4):453-460.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
105 (#200,105)

6 months
8 (#549,811)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Jerry Goodenough
University of East Anglia

Citations of this work

The Worseness of Nonexistence.Theron Pummer - 2019 - In Solberg Gamlund and (ed.), Saving lives from the badness of death. Oxford University Press. pp. 215-228.
Death by Redescription.Henry Pollock - 2022 - Philosophia 51 (1):309-328.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references