PHIL 230 FINAL (LONG UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. John Locke (3 kinds of identity)
Answer:
substance identity, personal identity, and human identity
Question:
2. Substance Identity
Answer:
strict identity; across time=change in substance; anything that exists across time without gaining or losing
any part has this across time; physical and nonphysical (soul)
Question:
3. Human Identity
Answer:
sameness of organizational structure of parts indicative of "human" across time
Question:
4. Personal Identity
Answer:
a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can reside itself as itself; the same thinking
thing in different times and places across time: consists in a relation of first person consciousness secured
by memory, between any thing at the time at issue
Question:
5. person
Answer:
a forensic term pertaining to the justice of praise/blame, reward/punishment
Question:
6. soul substance
Answer:
immaterial; non-physical
Question:
7. memory
Answer:
what makes up the same person as someone in the past; consciousness of present and past actions
Question:
8. Thomas Reid (1 kind of identity)
Answer:
strict identity
, Question:
9. strict identity
Answer:
the same thinking substance across time without losing any parts
Question:
10. soul theory of personal identity across time
Answer:
continuous, uninterrupted existence of one's indivisible thinking substance (an immaterial soul) across time
Question:
11. Gretchen Weirob
Answer:
Philosophy professor who will soon die from and accident injury Says you can't use Locke's theory to
prove that some heavenly person id you without arguing in a circle Body identity theory of personal
identity across time
Question:
12. Dave Cohen
Answer:
Weirob's former student
Question:
13. Sam Miller
Answer:
hospital chaplain
Question:
14. seeming memory
Answer:
an experience as of something (x) having happened in the past
Question:
15. veridical memory
Answer:
(i) a seeming memory (ii) x having happened in the past
Question:
16. circularity test
Answer:
Ask "Is any premise true only if the conclusion is true?; Does any premise logically entail the conclusion?"
If yes: then the argument involves circular reasoning=fails If no: argument passes
Question:
17. free will
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. John Locke (3 kinds of identity)
Answer:
substance identity, personal identity, and human identity
Question:
2. Substance Identity
Answer:
strict identity; across time=change in substance; anything that exists across time without gaining or losing
any part has this across time; physical and nonphysical (soul)
Question:
3. Human Identity
Answer:
sameness of organizational structure of parts indicative of "human" across time
Question:
4. Personal Identity
Answer:
a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can reside itself as itself; the same thinking
thing in different times and places across time: consists in a relation of first person consciousness secured
by memory, between any thing at the time at issue
Question:
5. person
Answer:
a forensic term pertaining to the justice of praise/blame, reward/punishment
Question:
6. soul substance
Answer:
immaterial; non-physical
Question:
7. memory
Answer:
what makes up the same person as someone in the past; consciousness of present and past actions
Question:
8. Thomas Reid (1 kind of identity)
Answer:
strict identity
, Question:
9. strict identity
Answer:
the same thinking substance across time without losing any parts
Question:
10. soul theory of personal identity across time
Answer:
continuous, uninterrupted existence of one's indivisible thinking substance (an immaterial soul) across time
Question:
11. Gretchen Weirob
Answer:
Philosophy professor who will soon die from and accident injury Says you can't use Locke's theory to
prove that some heavenly person id you without arguing in a circle Body identity theory of personal
identity across time
Question:
12. Dave Cohen
Answer:
Weirob's former student
Question:
13. Sam Miller
Answer:
hospital chaplain
Question:
14. seeming memory
Answer:
an experience as of something (x) having happened in the past
Question:
15. veridical memory
Answer:
(i) a seeming memory (ii) x having happened in the past
Question:
16. circularity test
Answer:
Ask "Is any premise true only if the conclusion is true?; Does any premise logically entail the conclusion?"
If yes: then the argument involves circular reasoning=fails If no: argument passes
Question:
17. free will
