PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Materialism, Intentionality, Epiphenomenalism
1 Dec 2014
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While the autobiographical narrative may never be articulate to oneself or others, a narrator of an identity-constituting narrative should be able to explain what she believes or feels and why she does the things she does. Other times we give the wrong explanations: someone might think something was an accident while in fact it was caused by his resentment. Both explicit self-narrative and an explicit one. Narrative must cohere with the facts both observational and interpretive ones. The degree or personhood is diminished by these errors. Similarly for interpretive errors: consider a paranoid person. Personal identity is created subjectively by the narrative we tell of ourselves: cultural conception of a person, narrative of ones life others have (objective view, facts about the world. Explains the 4 features: survival, moral responsibility, self-interested concern, compensation. See, hear, smell, taste and touch various aspects of the world around me. Senses provide me with an array of sensations some pleasant, some unpleasant, some neutral.
