The Unimportance of Identity Essay Questions

The Unimportance of Identity
  1. If your head was transplanted onto someone else’s body, would you still be you? Would it matter if it was a person of a different age or gender? If your brain was transplanted into a different body, would that be a different situation? Why or why not?
  2. Explain Parfit’s single case and double case. What point is he trying to make with these stories?
  3. How does Parfit think we should revise our views about identity?
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