All the Right Reasons

Derek Parfit 31 December 2007 In my book Reasons and Persons, I defended one view about the metaphysics of persons, and also claimed that personal identity is not what matters. In this paper I shall give some further arguments for this second claim, and also try to respond to some forceful objections by Mark Johnston. I shall not, however, try to decide what does matter, since that is a much larger and more difficult question. 1 PART O NE 1 The Metaphysics of Persons We can start with some

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