The unimportance of being any future person

• DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0890-9
• Publication Date: 2017-03-08T13:36:03Z
• Authors: Johan E. Gustafsson
• Keywords: Argument (complex analysis); Philosophy of language

Derek Parfit's argument against the platitude that identity is what matters in survival does not work given his intended reading of platitude, namely, to some future time being identical with someone who alive at time. I develop so it works on reading.