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Reply to Bykvist and Campbell on Possible Beings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2021

Ingmar Persson Open the ORCID record for Ingmar Persson [Opens in a new window]
Ingmar Persson*
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Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Utilitas , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 480 - 487
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References

1 Bykvist, Krister and Campbell, Tim, ‘Persson's Merely Possible Persons’, Utilitas 32 (2020), 479–87CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Unprefixed page references are to this article.

2 Persson, Ingmar, Inclusive Ethics (Oxford, 2017), p. 61CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Parfit, Derek, On What Matters (Oxford, 2011)Google Scholar, vol. 2, Appendix J.

4 Persson, Ingmar, Our Identity and the Separability of Persons and Organisms, Dialogue, 38 (1999), 519–33CrossRefGoogle Scholar. But, as I indicated in this article and have contended in other publications, including Inclusive Ethics, ch. 3.1, I do not think a Lockean or any other theory of our identity is correct.

5 Thanks to Bykvist and Campbell for having prodded me to clarify my position on the matters discussed. Thanks also to Suzanne Uniacke and two anonymous reviewers.