In the first episode of the Office Hours podcast, chief editor Vincent Chow speaks to Dr Kai Spiekermann about the Non-Identity Problem, one of the most interesting and trickiest problems in philosophy, and its relevance for the climate change debate.

Dr Spiekermann is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and the Doctoral Programme Director in the Department of Government at the LSE. Among his research interests are normative and positive political theory, philosophy of the social sciences, social epistemology and environmental change.

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"Reasons and Persons" by Derek Parfit

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"The Non-Identity Problem | Derek Parfit | EAGxOxford 2016"

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