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| personal identity is a matter of degree, is analyzable, not a matter of having the same soul |
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| personal identity is preserved as long as continuity of memory is maintained |
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| personal identity is preserved as long as bodily continuity is maintained |
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| persons maintain strict identity through change |
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| 3 Views of Personal Identity |
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1. Absolute View
2. Body View
3. Memory View |
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| Re-creation position of Immortality |
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| when one dies, he becomes extinct, but at resurrection of the dead God recreates that person all over again out of nothing |
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| Immediate Resurrection position of Immortality |
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| persons are given a temporal body while waiting for a final resurrected body |
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| Traditional position on Immortality |
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| God alone possesses immortality in Himself |
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| 3 Positions on Immortality |
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1. Traditional
2. Immediate Resurrection
3. Re-Creation |
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| If dualism is true, we can't know whether other people have minds |
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| If dualism is true, it is possible that there is more than one mind per body....this possibility leads to skepticism about other minds |
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| theories employing mental language should be replaced by theories employing physical language, since there are no mental states |
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| mental states are identical to functional states of a system |
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| Token-Token Identity Theory |
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| each mental token is identical to some physical token, but there is no identity between types |
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| Type-type Identity Theory |
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| mental state types are identical to physical state types |
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| Philosophical Behaviorism |
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| mental states are identical to behaviors or dispositions to behave in particular ways, given certain inputs |
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| 5 Major positions within Physicalism |
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1. Philosophical Behaviorism
2. Type-type Identity
3. Token-token Identity
4. Functionalism
5. Eliminative Materialism |
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| completely physical set of necessary and sufficient conditions for any mental entity is not necessary (or doesn't exist) |
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| possible to provide a completely physical set of necessary and sufficient conditions for any mental entity |
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| What makes something "physical"? |
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1. capable of being described by the language of physical sciences
2. capable of being described without reference to consciousness |
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| Self-Presenting Properties |
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| present themselves directly to the subject, subject has them immediatly in field of consciousness |
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| possessed only by physical objects |
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subject is in a better position to know, has private access to:
1. sensations
2. propositional attitudes
3. acts of will/purposings |
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| the only substances that are exist are material ones |
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| intrinsic directness towards an object |
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Do not multiply entities beyond what is necessary....dualism violates this
Dualism is necessary because there are aspects of mental life that physicalism can't explain |
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If human persons are merely the result of evolutionary process, they are exclusively physical
Human persons are not exclusively physical |
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How can a non-physical entity interact with a physical entity?
assumes that knowing "how" is necessary for knowing "that" |
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| brain is physical object with physical properties and mind/soul is a mental substance with mental properties |
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there are some physical sumstances that have only physical properties, no mental substances
One material substance with physical and mental properties.....brain |
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Physicalism: completely physical
Dualism: physical and mental |
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Is human made of only one component (matter) or made of two components (mind and matter)?
Do mind and matter interact and how does that interaction take place? |
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Physical: what is possible given the physical laws and facts
Logical: as long as it is not logically contradictory |
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Contrary to the propsal
Try to show the view in question as false because it neglected an important possibility or suggested something impossible |
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| categories express the manner in which we understand reality, do not exist indepently of human thought and language |
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| categories are part of reality, they exist independtly of human thought and language |
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| Difference Between Naturalists and Ontologists |
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Ontologists: believe in the world and abstract entities
Naturalists: view that the universe alone exists |
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| sum of everything that exists |
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properties and relations
can be in more than one thing at once or can relate more than one group at once |
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| entities that can relate 2 or more things and can be in more than one group of things at the same time |
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| entities that can be exemplified by many things at the same time |
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| sum of material objects accessible to the senses and scientific investigation |
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| world that God could have created, could have logically existed |
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| everything is based on science, science is the main approach to investigating the world |
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| cannot exist, one that God could not create |
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| real world of all and only entities that exist, the world God really created |
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1. Take into account things already known (commonsense, Christian theology, knowledge of own self, other fields of study)
2. State metaphysical problem
3.Use thought experiments as sources for counterexamples |
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| 2 Branches of Metaphysics |
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1. General Ontology: study nature of existance, general principles of being
2. Special Metaphysics: study of special interest (soul/mind), second order investigation (Sociology, Psychology, etc...) |
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| study of nature of being or reality |
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