Introduction

episode 261, part two, covering personal identity as depicted in derick parfits reasons and persons fom 19 84. Can play two sections here. First is right at the beginning and picks up where part one left off. Seth: You were going to talk a little bit about what he's actually trying to show with his spectra thought experiments - that we ought to be reductionists. And so how do they show that? We could claim that either kind of continuity provides personal identity. Although hybrid view is coherent, it is open to grave objections.