Self-Determination in Plenitude
Author(s)
Kurtsal, Irem
Date Issued
2021
Abstract
On a plenitudinous ontology, in every filled region of spacetime, there is at least one object that's 'exactly then and there'; one per each modal profile that the matter in the region satisfies. One of the strongest arguments for plenitude, the argument from anthropocentrism (also known as the argument from arbitrariness), puts pressure on us to accept that members of different communities correctly self-identify under different subject concepts. I explore this consequence and offer an account of selves on which self-determination is both socially and individually variant; we determine our spatiotemporal boundaries, our de re modal properties, and the kind of being that we are. We do this by determining which of many candidate beings has the property of being a self.
Journal
Erkenntnis
Department
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Citation
Kurtsal, I. Self-Determination in Plenitude. Erkenn 87, 2397–2418 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00307-3
Publisher
Springer
DOI
10.1007/s10670-020-00307-3
ISSN
0165-0106
1572-8420