Why Derek Parfit claims that reductionism gives the explanation on questions about Personal Identity

Essay aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie der Gegenwart, Note: 1,0, Universität Mannheim, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Ethics and Personal Identity, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: With help of several imagined scenarios by Derek Parfit, this essay aims to explain how Parfit comes to the conclusion that in cases about persistence across time whether the resulting person will be m...