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Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

Print publication date: 1986

Print ISBN-13: 9780198249085

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/019824908X.001.0001

Why We Should Reject S

Chapter:
(p. 187 ) 9 Why We Should Reject S
Source:
Reasons and Persons
Author(s):

Derek Parfit (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/019824908X.003.0009

An argument against the bias towards the near; how a defence of temporal neutrality is not a defence of S; an appeal to inconsistency; why we should reject S and accept CP.

Keywords:   bias, inconsistency, rationality, regret

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