This study is about what matters in survival, about what relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual. For common sense there is such a relation and it is identity, but according to Parfit common sense is wrong in this respect. Id…
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"This study is about what matters in survival -- about what relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual. For common sense there is such a relation and it is identity, but according to Parfit common sense is wrong in this respect.…
What matters in survival? What relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual? According to Douglas Ehring's radical view, nothing matters in survival: there is no relation that gives you a basic, foundational normative reason for p…
Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes - properties and relations understood as particulars - provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defe…
Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes - properties and relations understood as particulars - provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defe…
Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes--properties and relations understood as particulars--provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defend…
Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes - properties and relations understood as particulars - provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defe…