What Matters in Survival: Personal Identity and other Possibilities 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 0192647547
• ISBN 13: 9780192647542
• Author: Douglas Ehring

This study is about what matters in survival—about what relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual. For common sense there is such a relation and it is identity, but according to Parfit common sense is wrong in this respect. Identity is not what matters in survival. In What Matters in Survival, Douglas Ehring argues that this Parfitian thesis does not go far enough. The result is the highly radical view “Survival Nihilism,” according to which nothing matters in survival. Although we generally have motivating reasons to have prudential concern, and perhaps even indirect normative reasons for such concerns there is no relation that gives you a basic, foundational normative reason for prudential concern. This view goes beyond what Parfit calls the “Extreme View.” It is the “More Extreme View” and is in effect something like an error theory about prudential reason as a special kind of normative reason.

Table of contents:

1. 1. The Divergence Argument
2. 1.1 Fission
3. 1.2 Anticipation Objection
4. 1.3 What’s Next?
5. 2. Fission and Shared Stages
6. 2.1 Reconciliation through Wholly Shared Stages
7. 2.2. Reconciliation through Partially Overlapping Stages
8. 2.3 Stage Theory
9. 3. Fission and Indeterminacy
10. 3.1 Johansson’s Determinate/Indeterminate Strategy
11. 3.2 Johnston’s Annexation Strategy
12. 3.3 What’s Next?
13. 4. Generalizing from Fission
14. 4.1 Parfit’s Rationales for the E-to-IDMND Inference
15. 4.2 The E-to-MMND Inference
16. 4.3 Another Mapping
17. 4.4 What’s Next?
18. 5. The Triviality Argument
19. 5.1 The Triviality Argument
20. 5.1.4 A Wholly Physical Relation
21. 5.2 Rejecting Anti-Causalism
22. 5.3 Digression: Back to Stage Theory
23. 5.4 What’s Next?
24. 6. The Non-Triviality Principle and Objections to Its Application
25. 6.1 Problems with Formulating the Non-Triviality Principle
26. 6.2 Empirical, not Conceptual, Constitution Objection
27. 6.3 The Difference in Kind Objection
28. 6.4 Causation Does Not Come in Degrees Objection
29. 6.5 Indeterministic Causation is not Scalar Causation Objection
30. 6.6 Degrees of Causation and Degrees of Mattering Objection
31. 6.7 Rejecting Reasons Externalism
32. 6.8 Objections based on Matter Particularism and Matter Brutalism

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