PHIL 230 TODD LONG FINAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PHIL 230 TODD LONG FINAL UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. we're born as a blank slate, our knowledge depends on our senses
Answer:
John Locke

Question:
2. 3 kinds of identity
Answer:
1- Substance Identity 2- Human Identity 3- Personal Identity

Question:
3. Substance Identity
Answer:
-absolutely NO CHANGE over time
- cannot gain or lose any parts
-strictest identity

Question:
4. Human Identity
Answer:
-the sameness of the structural organization of parts across time
-human DNA

Question:
5. Personal Identity
Answer:
- a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and can consider itself as itself
-the same thinking thing in different times and places
- not required to be a human

Question:
6. Person
Answer:
a forensic term

Question:
7. personal identity requires the first person consciousness (memory) across time
Answer:
John Locke

Question:
8. Objections to Locke's Personal Identity theory

, Answer:
he allows contradictions, his argument is circular

Question:
9. There is only one kind of identity, Structural
Answer:
Thomas Reid

Question:
10. Thomas Reid is a _______ theorist.
Answer:
a soul theorist

Question:
11. seeming memory
Answer:
any memory experience

Question:
12. Veridical Memory
Answer:
a seeming memory that you actually have done

Question:
13. Circularity Test
Answer:
Ask: does the argument have a premise that is true only if the the conclusion is true? If "yes", then the
arguments FAILS the test If "no" then the argument PASSES (doesn't involve circularity)

Question:
14. Surgery Problem Opinions
Answer:
Locke- the person who's brain is in there Reid- IDK Weirob- the person who's body it is

Question:
15. a person is their slowly changing body and slowly changing self concept involving ones body
Answer:
Weirob's theory on personal identity

Question:
16. Objections to weirobs theory of personal identity
Answer:
Burn victims?

Question:
17. 4 Person-theories