Staying Alive

Staying Alive is a game of personal identity. You are asked three questions. Your answers are then assessed for consistency and whether you took unnecessary risks. After you finish, there is also a link to some paper on personal identity that I have never read.

For an overview of personal identity that I have read, see Conee and Sider's chapter on personal identity. (Sider's site uses annoying frames so the link is not direct. Click on 'Riddles of Existence' at the bottom of his page and then 'Chapter 1: Personal Identity Over Time'.) The chapter is short and clear and might help to make sense of difficult issues. Also, the objections considered by Sider are interesting, but we will not have time to discuss many of them. This source might be a good one to keep in mind when thinking about a future paper topic (hint, hint).