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Title: Reactions & Debate I
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Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 21    Issue: 4   Date: 2014   
Pages: 565-579
DOI: 10.2143/EP.21.4.3062020

Abstract :
In a recent book, Marya Schechtman argues that people are practical units whose identity is deeply interconnected with our various person-related practical concerns. The Person Life View she develops responds to a number of claims currently accepted by many scholars in the personal identity debate, including the claim that personal identity does not matter in the grounding of our person-related practical concerns, and the claim that individual practical concerns are justified by a number of different relations. Schechtman argues that personal identity does matter and that it grounds all our person-related practical concerns. I will argue that these conclusions are enabled by a series of redefinitions of established concepts made by Schechtman. I will make these redefinitions explicit. I will further argue that the Person Life View has implausible consequences both in personal ontology and in normative guidance.

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