PHL244H1 Lecture 20: Week 10 Lecture 2: Reid
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Lecture 20: thomas reid on personal identity - essays on the intellectual powers of man excerpts. P(cid:396)ofesso(cid:396) at a(cid:271)e(cid:396)dee(cid:374) a(cid:374)d late(cid:396) glasgo(cid:449) (cid:894)ada(cid:373) s(cid:373)ith(cid:859)s (cid:272)hai(cid:396)(cid:895: ki(cid:374)g(cid:859)s college a(cid:271)e(cid:396)dee(cid:374, u of glasgow chair in ethics (very high, resigned bc he wants to have more time to write his books. We have an enduring self: humes we are bundles of perception not common sense, berkeley no mind independent objects. If there is no identity through time, there can be no reasoning. If (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t g(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) at all reasoning is not possible: we need to understand where reasoning comes from in order to reason ourselves personal identity. If you are not identical throughout that whole process, this reasoning will not work. Reasoning is diachronic thus humans are diachronic beings. Pragmatic incoherence argument: arguing that the opponent can(cid:859)t coherently make his argument: not saying anything about the arguments of the opponent self defeating argument, reid loves these types of arguments.
