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The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and SoulA recent and much easier book on these puzzling splitting worlds is Paul DaviesБЂ™ Other Worlds (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981). The strange problem of personal identity under such conditions of branching has been explored, indirectly, in a high-powered but lively debate among philosophers over the claims made by the philosopher and logician Saul Kripke in his classic monograph БЂњNaming and Necessity,БЂ«which first appeared in 1972 in D. Davidson and G. Harman, eds., The Semantics of Natural Language (Hingham, Mass.: Reidel, 1972), and has just been reprinted, with additional material, as a book by Kripke, Naming and Necessity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980). In the Reflections, an issue is raised that must have occurred to you before: If my parents hadnБЂ™t met, IБЂ™d never have existedБЂ”or could I have been the child of some other parents? Kripke argues (with surprising persuasiveness) that although someone exactly like you might have been born at a different time to different parentsБЂ”or even to your own parentsБЂ”that person could not have been you ...» |
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