Author: Chad Vance Category: Metaphysics Word Count: 1000 Could you have been an alligator? Or a roller skate? Is there a possible scenario where you were never born as a human being, but where someone builds a roller skate, and you are that roller skate? Probably not. Most people think that you could not have … Continue reading Origin Essentialism: What Could Have Been Different about You?
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Personal Identity: How We Exist Over Time
Author: Chad Vance Category: Metaphysics Word Count: 1000 You are a person. Presumably, you used to be a younger person. But, in virtue of what is it the case that you and that younger person are one and the same individual? In other words, how is it that you continue to exist over time? There … Continue reading Personal Identity: How We Exist Over Time
1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology 