https://archive.opentheory.net/2018/09/a-new-theory-of-open-individualism/ Speculations on the Frontiers of Science and Culture Fri, 19 Oct 2018 05:53:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://archive.opentheory.net/2018/09/a-new-theory-of-open-individualism/#comment-98430 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 05:53:09 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/?p=1342#comment-98430 […] Ethics & theories of personal identity: Andrés and I each wrote some things about theories of personal identity; Andrés’s piece focused on the idea that ‘you can’t get ethics right if you don’t get personal identity right, and that most ethical arguments right now (like David Benatar’s antinatalism) assume a theory of identity (Closed Individualism) which breaks in illegible ways if we try to apply it in novel contexts.’ My piece was an exploratory look into how Daniel Kolak’s idea of Open Individualism could be distinguished from other theories of identi…. […]

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