Exam 2

Question 1

Phil. Q: Personal Identity/Persistance over time

Answer 1

Your body can rot and die but your soul can survive due to that it is immaterial
Ex. Burn Kleenex Box Objection: a person that looks, thinks, and acts like her cant be her its more like a imposter, it isnt a continuation of self
Ex. Reincarnation

Question 2

Soul View of Personal ID+ Inaccessiblity Obj

Answer 2

How sameness of soul can identify sameness of body therefore creating personal identity.
Ex. Chocolate Metaphor- Sameness of body is correlate to a person’s identity via personality/ character.
Objection: Soul we can’t idenify personal identity with a thing we are not able to observe.
River Example: Constantly changing soul

Question 3

Body View + Counterexample + Inaccessiblity obj

Answer 3

We wake up in the morning before opening eyes we identify self before we identify same body.
Ex. 100 ft River: We can ID personal identity if the body of perso has changed identity of self is still there “Youness”.
Objection: Immaterial soul could be in a constant state of flux, each one related to another.
Ex. Basball game

Question 4

Psychological continuity View:
-Transivity worries
-Duplication Problem
-No close competitors
-Split brain issues

Answer 4

Later individual can be connected to eariler individual by means of memory.
-A=B, B=C, A not = C
-Transportation, cell copying
-No Branching, Chalk example
-Damage to left side (personality/memories), 2 fighting sides, Same Brain but different consciousness.

Question 5

Behaviorism+ Objection+ Interelation to mental states

Answer 5

Mental states and Body/Physical are one of the same.
Ex. Being sad(Mental)= crying, effect in the HR(Physical)
Objection: Displaying 2 emotions at once like crying while laughing, Actors portraying emotins

Question 6

Identity Theory+ Multiple Realizability

Answer 6

The mental state is exactly similar processes to the brain states.
Ex. Brain activity lie detector, be more accurate
Objection: Aliens could feel the same but have different makeup.

Question 7

Functionalism+ Analogies+ Improve ID theory+ Inverted spectrum obj.

Answer 7

The view of mental states are proven to have functional roles.
Ex: Pain cause crying, wincing, elevated heart rate.
-ID Theory has a correlation directly to a brain states to a mental, while this view does not need that.
Objection: One could see things as different colors and no ones not even himself, Different brain state having same functions as others.

Question 8

Elimative Materialism+ Objections

Answer 8

The view that the imaginative mind doesnt exist and folk psychology is invalid, everything is caused by the physical brain.
Objection: Desires, beliefs, and morals proves mental states

Question 9

Consequence Argument

Answer 9

Determinism is true, Can’t do anything about past/laws therefore your not free since you cant do otherwise.

Question 10

Compatilsim+ Cases

Answer 10

Believes in free will + determinism, if “A” wants do “P” then they could do it and if “A” wanted to do something else, they would do that thing.
Ex. Hypnotist and posioning roomate

Question 11

Libertarian

Answer 11

Believes free will without determinism

Question 12

PAP+ Frankfurt Cases

Answer 12

Any person/action is morally responsibly only if there is a genuine alternative possiblity open at the time.
Ex. Jones uses chip to vote blue (Against)
Jones threatens to kill to vote blue but other already decided before threat (For)