English Explanatory Dictionary

nonidentity problem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. the philosophical problem involving our ethical obligations to future persons which derives from the observation that different courses of action will result in entirely different, or nonidentical, persons coming to be.

Word forms

nonidentity problem

Etymology

The articulation of the problem is credited to Derek Parfit in his work Reasons and Persons.

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