2020-11-17
phil-1101
- Questions to guide the reading
- What's the difference between qualitative identity and numerical identity?
- What type of identity is more important for personal identity and why?
- What is the soul theory?
- What are the central problems with it according to the textbook authors?
- Do you think soul theorists could provide a satisfactory response to these objections?
- What are memory (psychological continuity) theories?
- How are they different from the standard version of the soul theory?
- How does John Locke use his cobbler and prince thought experiment to argue for it?
- What is the point of introducing s-memories?
- What sort of objection is the distinction intended to overcome?
- Does this distinction succeed in overcoming the objection?
- What objection to memory theories is the teletransporter thought experiment supposed to illustrate?
- How might a defender of a memory theory respond?
- Lecture
- Problem of personal identity
- What makes a person the same person from one moment to the next?
- Identify them overtime
- Hold them responsible for their actions
- Concept of personal identity