3D Cohabitation

Simon Langford

doi:10.1007/s10670-015-9790-6

3D Cohabitation

Simon Langford

Department of Cognitive Sciences

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The cohabitation theory is a popular solution to the problem of personal fission. It affirms that all the people who result from fission were there cohabiting the pre-fission body all along. Adopting this solution is an uncontroversial move for four-dimensionalists, but is it open to three-dimensionalists too? Some have thought so, but Katherine Hawley, Mark Johnston, and Eric Olson have argued to the contrary. They claim three-dimensionalists simply cannot be cohabitation theorists. In this paper, I explain how they can.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1195-1210
Number of pages	16
Journal	Erkenntnis
Volume	81
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-015-9790-6
Publication status	Published - Dec 1 2016

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Logic

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