What Matters in Survival Personal Identity and other Possibilities 1st Edition by Douglas Ehring ISBN 9780192894717 0192894714

1. The Divergence Argument

1.1 Fission

1.2 Anticipation Objection

1.3 What’s Next?

2. Fission and Shared Stages

2.1 Reconciliation through Wholly Shared Stages

2.2. Reconciliation through Partially Overlapping Stages

2.3 Stage Theory

3. Fission and Indeterminacy

3.1 Johansson’s Determinate/Indeterminate Strategy

3.2 Johnston’s Annexation Strategy

3.3 What’s Next?

4. Generalizing from Fission

4.1 Parfit’s Rationales for the E-to-IDMND Inference

4.2 The E-to-MMND Inference

4.3 Another Mapping

4.4 What’s Next?

5. The Triviality Argument

5.1 The Triviality Argument

5.1.4 A Wholly Physical Relation

5.2 Rejecting Anti-Causalism

5.3 Digression: Back to Stage Theory

5.4 What’s Next?

6. The Non-Triviality Principle and Objections to Its Application

6.1 Problems with Formulating the Non-Triviality Principle

6.2 Empirical, not Conceptual, Constitution Objection

6.3 The Difference in Kind Objection

6.4 Causation Does Not Come in Degrees Objection

6.5 Indeterministic Causation is not Scalar Causation Objection

6.6 Degrees of Causation and Degrees of Mattering Objection

6.7 Rejecting Reasons Externalism

6.8 Objections based on Matter Particularism and Matter Brutalism

Epilogue: Possible Implications for Rationality and Ethics

E.1 Rationality and Ethics

E.2 Ethical or Non-Metaphysical Justification for Rejecting Survival Nihilism?

Bibliography

Index