Abstract
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 |
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Pages (from-to) | 1195-1210 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Erkenntnis |
Volume | 81 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 1 2016 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy
- Logic