Body, Mind and Soul

Question 1

Is a disembodied soul human?:

Answer 1

Geach criticising Plato

Question 2

Critic of Descartes:

Answer 2

Hume - we think of ourselves as a single thing not a mind and a body separate?

Question 3

Category errors:

Answer 3

Ryle - body and soul should be spoken of as separate things - why must things only be physical Or mental - critic of Descartes

Question 4

Hard materialism:

Answer 4

DAWKINS THE ASSHOLE yeah cool

Did think there was mind stuff we hadn’t fully discovered/explained yet and that’s a type of soul

Question 5

Continuity of identity:

Answer 5

Locke - if a prince and a pauper swap bodies, their mind remains the same

Question 6

Replica theory:

Answer 6

Hick - soft materialism - if you teleport, same person. If you die and then appear somewhere else, same person (not a copy, same person). If you die and appear in another world, same person - trying to be materialist and explain bodily resurrection