Why I have no hands

Theoria 61 (2):182-197 (1995)
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Trust me: my chair isn't big enough for two. You may doubt that every rational, conscious being is a person; perhaps there are beings that mistakenly believe themselves to be people. If so, read ‘rational, conscious being’ or the like for 'person'.

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10.1111/j.1755-2567.1995.tb00496.x

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Material Beings.Peter Van Inwagen - 1990 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Identity and necessity.Saul A. Kripke - 1971 - In Milton Karl Munitz (ed.), Identity and individuation. New York,: New York University Press. pp. 135-164.
Survival and identity.David Lewis - 1976 - In Amélie Rorty (ed.), The Identities of Persons. University of California Press. pp. 17-40.

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