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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Theories That Are Indirectly Self‐Defeating
- 2 Practical Dilemmas
- 3 Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics
- 4 Theories That Are Directly Self‐Defeating
- 5 Conclusions
- 6 The Best Objection to the Self‐Interest Theory
- 7 The Appeal to Full Relativity
- 8 Different Attitudes to Time
- 9 Why We Should Reject S
- 10 What We Believe Ourselves to Be
- 11 How We Are not What We Believe
- 12 Why Our Identity Is not What Matters
- 13 What Does Matter
- 14 Personal Identity and Rationality
- 15 Personal Identity and Morality
- 16 The Non‐Identity Problem
- 17 The Repugnant Conclusion
- 18 The Absurd Conclusion
- 19 The Mere Addition Paradox
- Concluding Chapter
- A A World Without Deception
- B How My Weaker Conclusion Would in Practice Defeat S
- C Rationality and the Different Theories About Self‐Interest
- D Nagel's Brain
- E The Closest Continuer Schema
- F The Social Discount Rate
- G Whether Causing Someone to Exist Can Benefit This Person
- H Rawlsian Principles
- I What Makes Someone's Life Go Best
- J Buddha's View
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
E The Closest Continuer Schema
E The Closest Continuer Schema
- Source:
- Reasons and Persons
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Theories That Are Indirectly Self‐Defeating
- 2 Practical Dilemmas
- 3 Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics
- 4 Theories That Are Directly Self‐Defeating
- 5 Conclusions
- 6 The Best Objection to the Self‐Interest Theory
- 7 The Appeal to Full Relativity
- 8 Different Attitudes to Time
- 9 Why We Should Reject S
- 10 What We Believe Ourselves to Be
- 11 How We Are not What We Believe
- 12 Why Our Identity Is not What Matters
- 13 What Does Matter
- 14 Personal Identity and Rationality
- 15 Personal Identity and Morality
- 16 The Non‐Identity Problem
- 17 The Repugnant Conclusion
- 18 The Absurd Conclusion
- 19 The Mere Addition Paradox
- Concluding Chapter
- A A World Without Deception
- B How My Weaker Conclusion Would in Practice Defeat S
- C Rationality and the Different Theories About Self‐Interest
- D Nagel's Brain
- E The Closest Continuer Schema
- F The Social Discount Rate
- G Whether Causing Someone to Exist Can Benefit This Person
- H Rawlsian Principles
- I What Makes Someone's Life Go Best
- J Buddha's View
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
