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Eidos

Print version ISSN 1692-8857On-line version ISSN 2011-7477

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BRIONES BELMAR, Angelo Antonio. A Critical Review on the Thesis of the Depe ndence of the Experiences of Derek Parfit. Eidos [online]. 2019, n.30, pp.238-267. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.30.192.

Derek Parfit in People, rationality and time argues that although it is possible to conceive experiences without referring to people, experiences depend on people for their existence, and in turn, experiences would depend on certain other entity not identical to the person entity for their identity. This thesis, which comes from certain mental experiments of Parfit, specifically from My Division argument and the Hospital Argument, will be reviewed from certain metaphysical notions of E. J. Lowe, specifically, from the thesis that assumes that identity dependence implies existential dependence, so that if x depends on the identity of y, x would depend, in the same way, on the existence of y. This assumption will bring to developing certain problems concerning what Parfit holds in his scheme on the dependence of experiences.

Keywords : Derek Parfit; experiences; brain; identity dependence; existential dependence..

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