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by Derek Parfit, 1984
Who uses, recommends or left Reasons and Persons, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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On his Favourite Books page, "an arbitrary subset of some of the best books I've read", listed as "Reasons and Persons (1984)".
It includes all sorts of thought experiments that all but destroys the concept of self. I couldn’t finish the book because it was too hard and jargony.
From his 2016 year-in-review post, in a section on books that helped him come to terms with a physicalist worldview. He praises the thought experiments but did not finish it.
2017-01-08·amasad.me ↗
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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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