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- Title
SINGULARITY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY.
- Authors
Welty, Ivan
- Abstract
People, like paintings and unlike poems, are singular, in the sense that they do not admit of multiple simultaneous instances. Is the singularity of persons contingent, perhaps subject to future technical innovation? A celebrated argument concerning forgery in the arts suggests, on adaptation to the case of persons, that multiplicity is ruled out for persons. In this paper I mount that argument and consider a few implications, including implications for some standard problems about personal identity.
- Publication
Appraisal, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 4, p29
- ISSN
1358-3336
- Publication type
Academic Journal