Parfit, Derek Fellow, All' Souls, Oxford
Print publication date: 1986 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824908-5







doi:10.1093/019824908X.003.0016

Derek Parfit
Abstract: Examines how our identity depends on when we were conceived. It discusses cases that involve all and only the same people, same numbers but different people, and different numbers of people; what weight we should give to the interests of future people. It examines the case of a young girl's child; how lowering the quality of life might be worse for no one; and whether this fact makes any moral difference.

Keywords: conception, future generations, identity, non-identity, person, personal identity, pregnancy, quality of life,

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Part One Self-Defeating Theories
Part Two Rationality and Time
Part Three Personal Identity
Part Four Future Generations