A survival guide to fission

Moyer, Mark

doi:10.1007/s11098-007-9161-5

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“…A similar view is defended in Gallois . The views defended in Perry and Moyer are also similar in some respects, and can plausibly be read as having the same practical implications in the cases we will be considering.…”

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Divided We Fall

Ross

2014

Philosophical Perspectives

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Divided We Fall

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2014

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“…This line of response is in the same spirit as Moyer's (2008) take on the familiar statue/clay puzzle:…”

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“….” obtains solely in virtue of how the world is at the contextually specified time. (Moyer 2008, pp. 304–5)…”

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OCCASIONAL IDENTITY: A TALE OF TWO APPROACHES

Langford

Ramachandran

2011

Philosophical Books

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“…Johnson [141] takes this mere imaginability as an argument against declaring bodily continuity as a logical precondition for personal identity. Our scenario is no more fantastic than other thought experiments that have been employed to disentangle identity from its natural correlates-through neurosurgeons [6,38,51,128,142], amoeba-like duplication [127,143], cloning [144], parallel universes [30], or even swampbeings [66]. To come full circle, some of the philosophical conceptions and puzzle cases are reproduced in cultural creations and thereby further embedded into cultural consciousness [39].…”

Section: The Fission Scenario As Scientific Fiction: Benefits and Valmentioning

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“…If two continuers can be considered to be the same as the original without a sense of contradiction, it is not necessarily the understanding of identity that is responsible for this conflict. It is possible-albeit perhaps unlikely-that participants instead endorse alternative views of persons and conceptualize them as time worms, life histories, or branching persons [127,128]; or allow for two persons cohabiting one body before fission [58]. One might criticize our questions for leading participants to a nonstandard perspective of persons by using continuous scales for eliciting opinions about states after fission that cannot be true in degrees.…”

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Putting your money where your self is: Connecting dimensions of closeness and theories of personal identity

2020

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Studying personal identity, the continuity and sameness of persons across lifetimes, is notoriously difficult and competing conceptualizations exist within philosophy and psychology. Personal reidentification, linking persons between points in time is a fundamental step in allocating merit and blame and assigning rights and privileges. Based on Nozick's (1981) closest continuer theory we develop a theoretical framework that explicitly invites a meaningful empirical approach and offers a constructive, integrative solution to current disputes about appropriate experiments. Following Nozick, reidentification involves judging continuers on a metric of continuity and choosing the continuer with the highest acceptable value on this metric. We explore both the metric and its implications for personal identity. Since James (1890), academic theories have variously attributed personal identity to the continuity of memories, psychology, bodies, social networks, and possessions. In our experiments, we measure how participants (N = 1, 525) weighted the relative contributions of these five dimensions in hypothetical fission accidents, in which a person was split into two continuers. Participants allocated compensation money (Study 1) or adjudicated inheritance claims (Study 2) and reidentified the original person. Most decided based on the continuity of memory, personality, and psychology, with some consideration given to the body and social relations. Importantly, many participants identified the original with both continuers simultaneously, violating the transitivity of identity relations. We discuss the findings and their relevance for philosophy and psychology and place our approach within the current theoretical and empirical landscape. OPEN ACCESS Citation: Woike JK, Collard P, Hood B (2020) Putting your money where your self is: Connecting dimensions of closeness and theories of personal identity. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228271. https://doi. Data Availability Statement: The data required to replicate the results of this study for both Study 1 and Study 2 can be accessed in the Harvard Dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AN1QF3). The dataset for Study 1 is freely accessible in a Personal identity and reidentificationThis investigation into personal identity starts with a theoretical analysis of reidentification. Reidentification poses an important question concerning personal identity [1,18]: Is y at t 2 one and the same person as x at t 1 ? We recognize and thereby reidentify acquaintances and connect their present state with earlier states, but we are also able to remember or imagine their existence in the past and the future. Furthermore, we each stand in a special relationship Putting your money where your self is PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228271 February 12, 2020 2 / 44 version without demographic information and can be requested via the platform with demographic data by researchers at academic institutions upon reasonable request (the full dataset is uploaded to the platform).

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A survival guide to fission

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Divided We Fall

Divided We Fall

OCCASIONAL IDENTITY: A TALE OF TWO APPROACHES

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