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Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Personal Identity

Parfett lays out different angles of personal identity in chapters 10 through 13. He's starting with two competing intuitions about identity, he says. Parfett: We're thinking about what constitutes the identity of a person over time,. Despite the fact that we undergo so many changes as people - physically and mentally.

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