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Comment author: solipsist 08 January 2016 02:16:37PM 2 points [-]

The book to read is Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit.

Comment author: gjm 08 January 2016 03:11:36PM *  1 point [-]

Seconded -- it's a wonderful book -- with the caveat that it's long and dense and small-print and may be intimidating to the easily intimidated.

[EDITED to add:] But it's long and dense because there's a lot in it, not because it's wordy and confusingly written; Parfit writes more clearly than most philosophers.