Reconsidering a transplant: A response to Wagner
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2016
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Philosophical Society of Southern Africa
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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 rather on my part, in that I have not taken into account the conceptual genesis of personhood, that my view of thought experiments is idiosyncratic and possibly self-defeating, and in that I have ignored important empirical evidence about the relationship between brains and minds. I argue that my case still stands and that transplant thought experiments can do damage to rivals of a psychological continuity theory of personal identity like Marya Schechtman�s Person Life View.
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Beck, S. (2016). Reconsidering a transplant: A response to Wagner. South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(2): 132-140.