The Ship of Theseus
Replace a ship's planks one at a time until not one original piece is left. Is it still the same ship?
c. 75 CE (Plutarch's report of an older dispute)20 min read
British analytic philosophy and ethics
Derek Parfit
1942 – 2017
Philosopher at All Souls College, Oxford. Reasons and Persons (1984) argued through fission and teletransportation cases that questions of personal identity can be empty, and that what matters in survival is psychological continuity and connectedness rather than identity itself.