Re: A calculus of personal identity

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:08:07 +1000

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:30:08PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> 2) We are type, not token. There is no physical token. (with comp).
> Parfit thinks we are token. I have not the Parfit under the hand, I
> will give you the pages later. I don't think there are any mathematical
> token either. It looks like Parfit makes us token for avoiding
> immortality at the start.
>

Having recently read Parfit, I would add that the "type vs token"
debate echoes in some strange way the "RSSA vs ASSA" debate.

Perhaps I'm barking the wrong tree here, but for the moment I'll leave
this as a "criticise and discuss" question to the class :)

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Received on Sat Jun 24 2006 - 20:00:25 PDT