Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e

Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

The Problem of Personal Identity

You Can't Step Into the Same River Twice: Self as Process

Thought Probes

Body Transplants: Do you believe that you would survive a body transplant (having your brain transplanted into another body)? Why or why not?
Frankenstein Fears After Head Transplant (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1263758.stm) BBC News article on head transplants in monkeys



Heady Transplant (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/SecondOpinion/secondopinion_85.html) ABC News article on head transplants by Nicholas Regush



A Little Off the Top (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/transplants.html) Wired.com article on head transplants by Jonathan Vankin



Guillotines and Body Transplants: the Severed Head in Fact and Fiction (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020930/severed_head.shtml) Article by Fred Bush



Dualism: An Empirical Test (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shil0124/mystuff/dualism.html) Implications of brain transplants for theories of the self by Peter J. King (University of North London)

Branch Lines: Does your identity depend on the existence of other people?
The Duplicates Paradox (http://www.benbest.com/philo/doubles.html) Article by Ben Best on the reduplication problem



Implications of Fission, Fusion, and Teletransportation (http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tdo/identity_over_time.pdf) Article by Toby Ord defending the psychological continuity theory of personal identity



A Metaphysical Manifesto for Translated Travelers (http://www.bkmarcus.com/docs/manifesto.html) Article by Brian Knatz on the implications of teletransportation



Maintaining Identity (http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/misc/WinPhilp/PhillipsCh5.doc?class=phi315a¤t=23) Chapter from Win Phillip's masters thesis maintained by the Mind Project

Robert and Frank: Should a person be punished for what a former, very different stage of himself did?
Does Punishment for 'Culpable Indifference' Simply Punish for 'Bad Character'? (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=323400) Article by Keith W. Simons (Boston University School of Law)



Justification of Punishment (http://www.garlikov.com/Punishment.html) Article by Richard Garlikov



Justice as Desert (http://www.dean.usma.edu/english/pojman/PublishedWorks/JusticeasDesert.html) Article by Louis P. Pojman (West Point)



Morality and Personal Identity (http://www.lucs.lu.se/spinning/categories/moral/Tannsjo/Tannsjo.pdf) Article by Torbjorn Tannsjo (Gothenberg University)



Why Virtue Matters to the Study of Practical Reason (http://www.pitt.edu/~kis23/i-v.pdf) Article by Kieran Setiya (University of Pittsburgh)

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