Can We Survive Death?

Abstract

Could we survive our own death? According to the dominant view of personal identity (known as the psychological continuity view), we continue to exist as long as we maintain appropriate psychological states and capacities. In endorsing this view, one might hope that we can survive death by transferring our psychology to a new, different body. Drawing upon an animalist counterargument to the psychological continuity view, I argue that this is not a possibility.