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IS PERSONAL IDENTITY WHAT MATTERS? by 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

TREN (Transport and Energy) of the European Commission, because it was working hard on promoting sea transport due to the overuse of rail, road and air transport (Commission of the European Communities 2001f: 13). DG TREN had just launched a White Paper in which it announced the promotion of increased levels of maritime transport, due to an overuse of other modes of transport (Commission of the European Communities 2001b). The Erika accident threatened to have a counterproductive effect on these

séparation » l  et elles se pensaient capables de « nettoyer les dégâts après coup » l  Consensus de Jackson Hole : « Cleaning up afterwards » (CUA) et pas de « leaning against the wind » (LAW) “Should Monetary Policy “Lean or Clean”?”, William R. White (2009) http://www.dallasfed.org/institute/wpapers/ 2009/0034.pdf l  34 Les justifications du CUA par A. Greenspan l  l  l  La dynamique des cycles et les bulles : Le cycle est inhérent à la « nature humaine » ; alternance de phases d’euphorie

période. 17. Toutes les régressions du tableau 1, y compris la régression de base, tentent de corriger l’hétéroscédasticité individuelle à l’aide de l’estimateur Huber/White/Sandwich de la variance. Cette méthode prudente est systématiquement adoptée même si l’hypothèse nulle d’homoscédasticité n’est pas rejetée à l’issue d’un test White aux seuils de confiance classiques. Toutefois, lorsqu’on teste plutôt la source d’hétéroscédasticité au niveau d’un groupe qui est plus spécifique, l’hypothèse nulle

She doesn’t see today’s schooling in the same light. “Now I think children are taught what is needed to pass exams. It is very narrowly focused and teachers have to get through it all. It’s a great shame. The children no longer write three sides of paper in an exam; they tick boxes.” Nor is there much rote learning, and there is much less writing down—a process Ashurst sees as helpful in committing information to memory. She isn’t especially nostalgic, and she notes with regret that she was allowed

on the Canadian Forest, Toronto, Ryerson, 1938, Chap. XIII-XIV. [3] J.R. Smith, North America : its People and the Resources, New-York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1940 ; C.L. White and E.J. Foscue, Regional Geography of Anglo-America, PrenticeHall, 1950. [4] Address of Joseph Shehyn, Esq., M.P.P., Feb. 1880, 24. [5] C.L. White and E.J. Foscue, op. cit., Chap. XIII. [6] Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country, Toronto, Longmans, 1948, Chap. VII. [7] C'est un fait bien connu que les fonderies de Montréal

(OFAT) methods can serve as useful tools for screening the important physicochemical parameters and also determining the possible optimum levels for maximum phenolics production with optimum activity. It is for these reasons that the objectives of this paper are: to screen for a potential fungal strain from different sources; to study the effect of different media components and process parameters on the production of phenolic compounds by the selected strain; to evaluate the antioxidative capacity of

Fiscale, Investissement, Coût d’Usage, Financement, Rendement du Capital ABSTRACT: One of the favorite tools of Governments in their attempts to stimulate investment is tax policy because of its ability to influence the user cost of capital. This paper analyses the connection between tax reliefs granted by the Senegalese Government and the demand for investment by firms. The methodology implemented rests on the theory of the user cost which allows establishing a robust relationship between taxation

economic transformation, particularly via their work and in their households and families. Because there is so little research available which enables analysts to transcend this simple binary dichotomy of good Islam versus bad western consumption, this paper is an attempt to mark out and investigate the relationship and the inherent tensions between these two conflicting worldviews. It does so by looking at the case of a moderately economically successful Islamic state, Malaysia. In examining the case

Uzbekistan, 3.4 MILLION TONS OF COTTON HARVESTED IN UZBEKISTAN, http://www.press-service.uz/en/news/show/pozdravleniya/3.4_million_tons_of_cotton_harvested_in_/ 5) “White Gold: The True Cost of Cotton”, Environmental Justice Foundation, 2005 6) Portail d’informations « 12.uz », 2010, http://www.12.uz/ru/news/show/official/5078/ 7) “White Gold: Uzbekistan, a slave nation for our cotton” Environmental Justice Foundation in partnership with Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights, 2010; “Invisible to the