Please choose one of the following questions to answer. Please type out the question you are answering at the top of your paper. The paper should be 1,000-to-1,200 words and is due during session 18.
- What is personal fission? Is it the sort of process that we can survive? What does Parfit say about fission? Is he right? Why or why not?
- Williams breaks down a fission case into a number of steps. He argues that at no stage does it make sense to start thinking that the A-bodied person is no longer A. If you were to argue that at some stage it does makes sense to think that the A-bodied person is no longer A, which stage would you pick? How would you respond to Williams’ argument against the plausibility of this judgment?
- If you wish you can write on a paper topic from the second paper assignment that you did not already write about.
- If you’d like to write about something else, please consult with your TA.