Disintegrated persons and distributive principles

Ratio

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 58-79

  Shoemaker, David W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34248074618     PISSN: 00340006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9329.00176     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 27
2. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984). In the remainder of this paper, I will cite page numbers of this book in parentheses in the text
3. John Broome, 'Utilitarian Metaphysics?' in Jon Elster and John E. Roemer, eds., Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 84-85
4. Derek Parfit, 'Comments', Ethics (July 1986), p. 839
5. Parfit, 'Comments', p. 840
6. I develop these ideas in greater detail in my 'Selves and Moral Units', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 4 (1999): 391-419
7. Cf., David Gauthier, Practical Reasoning (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), p. 126
8. For a related argument, see Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1974), pp. 32-33
9. See Bart Schultz, 'Persons, Selves, and Utilitarianism', Ethics (1986), p. 731
10. This point is made by Milton Wachsberg, in 'Personal Identity, the Nature of Persons, and Ethical Theory' (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1983), pp. 123-124
11. On this point, see also Diane Jeske, 'Persons, Compensation, and Utilitarianism', The Philosophical Review, vol. 102, no. 4 (1993), p. 560
12. For a detailed defense, see my 'Reductionist Contractualism: Moral Motivation and the Expanding Self', The Canadian Journal of Philosophy vol. 30, no. 3 (2000): 343-370
13. A point made by Schultz, p. 735
14. Bernard Williams, 'Persons, Character, and Morality', in Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, ed., The Identities of Persons (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 203