PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Thought Experiment, Spacetime, Mental Substance

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What is personal identity: descartes: i think therefore i am , for those who reject dualism issue of what self is. Problem of personal identity: what makes you the same person through time and space, dualist your body is not your identity; entirely of mental substance (soul/mind) David hume: no self only sequence of experience and body in which these sequences occurs. What makes a person a person: ship of theseus, ship made of wood is entirely rebuilt gradually overtime. What is all the old pieces are used to create another ship which one is the original: something more in the case of personal identity. John locke: personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity and conscious memories. General (in reading: a b c, c remembers b, but not a. Our identity over time is constituted by this one continuous consciousness.

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