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... ethics literature: TRANSPLANT: A surgeon has ten patients, each of whom will die of organ failure if he or she does not receive an organ transplant. The surgeon wants to save her patients and is convinced by philosophical arguments to the effect that it would be morally...

..., and these two parts of my brain were immediately scooped up off the pavement and rushed to the hospital. The left hemisphere of my brain was transplanted into a cloned body just like my previous one. The right hemisphere of my brain was transplanted into a different cloned body also just like my previous one...

.... Transplant. Toronto: Robot Binaries & Press. 257 pp. Elster, Jon. 2009. Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 202 pp. Ferguson, Ann, and Mechthild Nagel, eds. 2009. Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young. Studies in Feminist...

... in the debates ask them- selves whether, if faced with certain alternatives, they would choose this one or that. For example: if my brain were transplanted into your body and your brain were transplanted into mine and you wanted to survive, then if you knew that one of the two bodies had to be destroyed...

... of the sort the subject seems to remember that played a role in the production of the seeming memory. But fission would also count as a malfunction. Soif fission occurs in the case of one of us, say as the result of transplant- ing the two brain hemispheres into different bodies, the fission...

... for one’s survival, all of which are con- sistent with the same continuity facts (see also Madell 1981, 127–31 and Baker 2000, 137). To see this, let us first remind ourselves of the details of the fission case. In that case, someone’s brain is divided, and his or herleft hemisphere is then transplanted...

... Affairs 26 , no. 3 : 259 – 98 . Polzin V. J. , Anderson D. L. , Anderson G. B. , BonDurant R. H. , Butler J. E. , Pashen R. L. , Penedo M. C. T. , and Rowe J. D. . 1987 . “ Production of Sheep-goat Chimeras by Inner Cell Mass Transplantation...

..., with enough time for your lifeboat to reach either of them but not both; or think of two patients in urgent need of an organ transplant, with just one donor organ for you to allocate.) All else is equal: no special obligations, no differences in desert, in likelihood of success, and so forth. Call such cases...

... of experience if her cognitive capacities were miraculously, or through brain transplants, transformed into those of Martians. That’s to say, such an exception 46 On Imagism about Phenomenal Thought accept the weaker, anthropological view, there is, a fortiori...