naa a22 4500 510788904 CHVBK 20180411083312.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9370-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9370-9 Oyowe Oritsegbubemi School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa aut Physical Continuity, Self and the Future [Elektronische Daten] [Oritsegbubemi Oyowe] Jeff McMahan's impressive recent defence of the embodied mind theory of personal identity in his highly acclaimed work The Ethics of Killing has undoubtedly reawakened belief that physical continuity is a necessary component of the relation that matters in our self-interested concern for the future. My aim in this paper is to resist this belief in a somewhat roundabout way. I want to address this belief in a somewhat roundabout way by revisiting a classic defence of the belief that enormous changes in the contents of a person's psychology does not preclude justified fear of future pain. I have in mind Bernard Williams' The Self and the Future (1970) in which he argues, against the psychological view, that physical continuity is necessary for survival. I examine Williams' second thought experiment which ostensibly supports that intuition and afterwards defend two related claims. First, I argue that a close examination of the second thought experiment reveals that one's prior commitments to a particular criterion of personal identity can influence one's response to that thought experiment. Second, I argue that Williams' second thought experiment is set out in questionbegging terms. I do not claim, however, that the intuition under consideration lacks justification; I only claim that Williams' second thought experiment does not provide the needed support. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Physical and psychological continuity nationallicence Personal identity nationallicence Self-interested concern nationallicence Thought experiments nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/1(2013-03-01), 257-269 0048-3893 41:1<257 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9370-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9370-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Oyowe Oritsegbubemi School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/1(2013-03-01), 257-269 0048-3893 41:1<257 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer