Re: Reasons and Persons

2006-06-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes:> You don't have to.  Body identity is not sufficient to establish the "fact of the matter".  People > may be acquited to murder (by reason of insanity) because they suffer from multiple personality > disorder.  In such cases, one "personality" is generally not aware of the ot

Re: Reasons and Persons

2006-06-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes:> > In any case, it is telling that even Parfit's philosophical > > adversaries do not focus on lack of scientific plausibility as an > > argument against *philosophical* validity. For the most part, he could > > have made the same points had he been writing a century ago, dr

Re: Reasons and Persons

2006-06-02 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Brent Meeker writes: > > > > You don't have to. Body identity is not sufficient to establish the "fact of > the matter". People > > > may be acquited to murder (by reason of insanity) because they suffer from > multiple personality > > > disorder. In such