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    Reconsidering a transplant: A response to Wagner 

    Beck, Simon (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2016)
    Nils-Frederic Wagner takes issue with my argument that influential critics of “transplant” thought experiments make two cardinal mistakes. He responds that the mistakes I identify are not mistakes at all. The mistakes are ...

    Technological fictions and personal identity: on Ricoeur, Schechtman and analytic thought experiments 

    Beck, Simon (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
    It is notable when philosophers in one tradition take seriously the work in another and engage with it. This is certainly the case when Paul Ricoeur engages with the thought of Derek Parfit on personal identity. He sees ...

    The extreme claim, psychological continuity and the person life view 

    Beck, Simon (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2015)
    Marya Schechtman has raised a series of worries for the Psychological Continuity Theory of personal identity (PCT) stemming from what Derek Parfit called the 'Extreme Claim'. This is roughly the claim that theories like ...

    Am I my brother’s keeper? on personal identity and responsibility 

    Beck, Simon (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2013)
    The psychological continuity theory of personal identity has recently been accused of not meeting what is claimed to be a fundamental requirement on theories of identity - to explain personal moral responsibility. Although ...
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    Transplant thought-experiments: Two costly mistakes in discounting them 

    Beck, Simon (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
    ‘Transplant’ thought-experiments, in which the cerebrum is moved from one body to another have featured in a number of recent discussions in the personal identity literature. Once taken as offering confirmation of some ...

    The misunderstandings of the Self-Understanding View 

    Beck, Simon (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)
    Marya Schechtman has argued that contemporary attempts to save Locke’s account of personal identity suffer the same faults that are to be found in Locke, among which is an inability to capture the role our unconscious ...

    Understanding ourselves better 

    Beck, Simon (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)
    INTRODUCTION: Marya Schechtman and Grant Gillett acknowledge that my case in ‘The misunderstandings of the Self-Understanding View’ (2013) has some merits, but neither is moved to change their position and accept that the ...

    Thought experiments and personal identity in Africa 

    Beck, Simon; Oyowe, Oritsegbubemi Anthony (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
    African perspectives on personhood and personal identity and their relation to those of the West have become far more central in mainstream Western discussion than they once were. Not only are African traditional views with ...

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