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352Points of ConcernTheoria 47 121-130. 2000.This is a critical review of Raymond Martin's 'Self-Concern' (1998), focusing especially on his criticism of Parfit's use of fission thought-experiments and his own 'fission rejuvenation' thought-experiment.
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62Intuitionism, Constructive Interpretation, and CricketPhilosophical Papers 37 (2): 319-331. 2008.This paper is a re-reading of Colin Radford's paper 'The Umpire's Dilemma', published in Analysis in 1985. It argues that Radford's dilemma has been unjustly ignored and has interesting (and problematic) implications for both intuitionism and Ronald Dworkin's constructive interpretationist jurisprudence.
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1188A sporting dilemma and its jurisprudenceJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 33 (2): 125-143. 2006.Our purpose in this article is to draw attention to a connection that obtains between two dilemmas from two separate spheres: sports and the law. It is our contention that umpires in the game of cricket may face a dilemma that is similar to a dilemma confronted by legal decision makers and that comparing the nature of the dilemmas, and the arguments advanced to solve them, will serve to advance our understanding of both the law and games.
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133Am I My Brother's Keeper? On Personal Identity and ResponsibilitySouth African Journal of Philosophy 32 (1): 1-9. 2013.The psychological continuity theory of personal identity has recently been accused of not meeting what is claimed to be a fundamental requirement on theories of identity - to explain personal moral responsibility. Although they often have much to say about responsibility, the charge is that they cannot say enough. I set out the background to the charge with a short discussion of Locke and the requirement to explain responsibility, then illustrate the accusation facing the theory with details fro…Read more
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116Technological Fictions and Personal Identity: On Ricoeur, Schechtman and Analytic Thought ExperimentsJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 47 (2): 117-132. 2016.Paul Ricoeur and Marya Schechtman express grave doubts about the acceptability and informativeness of the thought-experiments employed by analytic philosophers (notably Derek Parfit) in the debate about personal identity, and for what appear to be related reasons. I consider their reasoning and argue that their reasons fail to justify their doubts. I go on to argue that, from this discussion of possible problems concerning select thought-experiments, something positive can be learned about perso…Read more
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859Morals, Metaphysics and the Method of CasesSouth African Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 332-342. 2010.In this paper I discuss a set of problems concerning the method of cases as it is used in applied ethics and in the metaphysical debate about personal identity. These problems stem from research in social psychology concerning our access to the data with which the method operates. I argue that the issues facing ethics are more worrying than those facing metaphysics.
Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Action |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |