A dialogu on identity and immortality (summary).docVIP

? Perry On Personal Identity What follows is a (long-ish!) summary of:?Perrys?A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality 1. First Night ????The Challenge Weirob challenges her friend Miller to comfort her on her death bed by showing that there is, at the very least, the mere?possibility?of her surviving after her death. The next three nights, then, are spent arguing whether such a thing is possible. ????Numerical Identity vs. Qualitative Identity Weirob is first careful to make the distinction between?numerical identity?and?qualitative identity?(in the dialogue, Perry calls the former