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Technological Fictions and Personal Identity: On Ricoeur, Schechtman and Analytic Thought Experiments

Simon BeckPhilosophy Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 117-132 | Published online: 31 Mar 2016

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