A posteriori identities and the requirements of rationality
| Abstract | Imagine that a medical team and submarine have been miniaturized and injected into the brain of a conscious subject to correct an otherwise irreparable condition. As team leader your greatest fear is that the subject, who is unaware of his situation, will take aspirin in response to the extensive c-fiber firing that you are apprehensively watching develop. For, as you know, in the subject | |||||||||
| Keywords | Dualism Identity Properties Black, Max Block, Ned | |||||||||
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