Reasons and persons - Parfit, Derek (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1984)
Theories that are indirectly self-defeating -- Practical dilemmas -- Fice mistakes in moral mathematics -- Theories that are directly self-defeating -- Two possibilities -- The best objection to the self-intersest theory -- The appeal to full relativity -- Different attitudes to time -- Why we should reject S -- What we believe ourselves to be -- How we are not what we believe -- Why our identity is not what we believe -- Why our identity is not what matters -- What does matter -- Personal identity and rationality -- Personal identity and morality -- The non-identity problem -- The repugnant conclusion -- The absurd conclusion -- The mere addition paradox.
Includes bibliography pages [533]-540 and index.
Keywords: Ethics; Rationalism; Self