The extreme claim, psychological continuity and the person life view

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dc.contributor.authorBeck, Simon
dc.date.accessioned03/03/2017 12:13
dc.date.available03/03/2017 12:13
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractMarya 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 it are unable to explain the importance we attach to personal identity. In her recent Staying Alive (2014), she presents further arguments related to this and sets out a new narrative theory, the Person Life View (PLV), which she sees as solving the problems as well as bringing other advantages over the PCT. I look over some of her earlier arguments and responses to them as a way in to the new issues and theory. I will argue that the problems for the PCT and advantages that the PLV brings are all merely apparent, and present no reason for giving up the former for the latter.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationBeck, S. (2015). The extreme claim, psychological continuity and the person life view. South African Journal of Philosophy, 34(3): 314-322en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-0136
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2601
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2015.1059677
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherPhilosophical Society of Southern Africaen_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the article published available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2015.1059677
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPsychological Continuity Theory (PCT)en_US
dc.subjectPersonal Life View (PLV)en_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.titleThe extreme claim, psychological continuity and the person life viewen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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