Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Circular Argument for Psychological Continuity
I'm sympathetic to the impersonal, and indeterminate model. I just feel like any reference to memory is gonna bring us back to that circular argument. But if you can talk about a continuity of experience combined with some sort of numerical persistence, or physical location, that actually is the right way to go. Memory just seems like a landmine. And so Bernard Williams is giving us this very clever version of where the two come apart.
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