부산대학교 도서관

When considering persons, one must consider the criteria for reidentifying a person over time. In the context of the metaphysical picture implied by Everettian quantum mechanics—one that includes some type of branching structure to the world—problems of diachronic identity arise. The problem with which this chapter is concerned is a Ship of Theseus–type problem; it argues that an answer to the question “With whom will I be identical postbranching?” can be found in analogy with a solution proposed by Derek Parfit in his paper from 1971, “Personal Identity.” This chapter proposes that we use a notion of branch-relative identity instead of the traditional equivalence relation of identity to solve this problem.