ABSTRACT

Conventionalists hold that the sorts of events that one survives—such as teletransportation, or a brain transplant—is at least partly determined by our attitudes. But, if Conventionalism is true, whose attitudes directly determine whether one survives? Do the individual’s attitudes do all of the work, as Private Conventionalists hold, or do the community’s attitudes also contribute, as Public Conventionalists hold? There has recently been a greater push towards Private Conventionalism, while explicit arguments for Public Conventionalism are difficult to find. In this paper, I attempt to rectify the situation by presenting my case for Public Conventionalism.

摘要

传统主义者认为，一个人能够幸存的事件类型——例如远程运输或脑移植——至少部分取决于我们的态度。但是，如果传统主义是正确的，谁的态度直接决定了一个人能否生存？个人的态度是否起到了所有作用，就像私人传统主义者所持有的那样，或者社区的态度也做出了贡献，就像公共传统主义者所持有的那样？最近，私人惯例主义得到了更大的推动，而公共惯例主义的明确论据却很难找到。在本文中，我试图通过提出我的公共惯例主义案例来纠正这种情况。