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Response to “Animal Interrupted”
Author(s) -
Manson Neil A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12067
Subject(s) - conventionalism , transporter , epistemology , chemistry , philosophy , biochemistry , gene
Strong conventionalism goes wrong well before cases of transfiguration even arise. Assuming it is a “rock‐bottom” form of conventionalism, it cannot deliver on its promise to resolve the classic transporter case. In the classic transporter case, the transported individual is not specified as being a member of any person‐determining community, and so there is no fact of the matter whether the transported individual survives.