PHIL exam 5
The philosopher John Locke defends which criterion of personal identity?
Psychological
This view is known as the _____ Theory.
The bundle theory
This objection is known as..
Thomas Reid's Brave Officer Paradox
if Hume's theory is right, then the self, according to Hales, is like.
a sports team, an army, or a rock band.
In the video "Batman & Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #18", Hank distinguishes between.
accidental and essential properties.
In the video "Arguments Against Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #20," Hank describes Hume's theory of personal identity. According to Hank, Hume thinks that the idea that we have a constant, essential self is...
an illusion
Clarifying the nature of this problem is the point of the ______ example in the reading.
chocolate caramel
According to Hume, there is a single, stable self that persists through time and that survives the death of the body.
false
The main reason to distinguish between the concept of personal identity and the concept of personality is that...
he same person can have different personalities at different points in time.
The problem with counting on DNA to solve the puzzle of personal identity, according to Hales, is that..
identical twins have the same DNA, but are different people
Fungibility is the property of being...
interchangeable with other objects of the same kind.
Hales considers the following argument in connection with his discussion of the soul criterion:
premise (4)
The philosopher Derek Parfit thinks that parts of you survive the passage of time because they are...
psychologically connected to your previous selves
According to the soul criterion of personal identity, the soul is..
something supernatural, imperceptible, immaterial, and immortal.
In the video "Batman & Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #18", the problem of personal identity is illustrated using the example of...
the Ship of Theseus.
The main reason for thinking that you go wherever your brain goes, as Hales points out, is that..
the brain is the repository of your memories, thoughts, desires, intentions, and other mental states
According to the physicalist criterion for personal identity,...
the closest physical continuer relation is what unites a person from one time to the next
Which of the following is true of split-brain patients?
the left and right hemispheres of their brain are unable to communicate.
One objection to Locke's theory of personal identity, as I emphasize in my lecture notes, is that it seems to violate which logical principle?
the transitivity of identity.
One objection to the soul criterion is that...
there is no scientifically acceptable evidence that souls in the relevant sense exist
According to the Principle of the Indiscernibility of Identicals, if any two things are identical, then..
they share all of the same properties.
Butler argued that the distinction between genuine memories and false memories poses a problem for Locke's theory of the self because...
to explain what makes any of your memories genuine, we have to know which person in the past was you (so the theory is circular).
Hales uses the examples of Clive Wearing and Phineas Gage to argue that the psychological criterion is...
too vague to be of use in cases where a person's psychological traits have significantly changed
the philosopher Bernard Williams proposed a thought experiment involving a mad scientist who...
transfers all of your mental content into someone else's brain.
Perhaps the most shocking feature of Hume's theory, according to Hales, is that when you go out of existence is vague: there are times in the future when there is no fact of the matter whether you exist.
true
The Scottish philosopher David Hume defends the view that...
we are an ever-changing collection of perceptions
Locke rejects the soul-based theory of personal identity because...
we have no way of comparing souls to differentiate between them or to recognize them
According to Locke, you are identical to some person who existed in the past because...
you have the same consciousness as that person
In the video "Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19," Hank suggests that a problem with the Body (Physicalist) Theory of personal idenity is that...
you're constantly being replaced by new physical versions of yourself.
Fingerprints are not a good solution to the problem of personal identity because...
All of the above.
Which of the following best describes the philosophical problem of personal identity?
It is the problem of explaining the nature of personhood (the nature of the self).
Under the physicalist criterion, Little Abby is the same person as Toddler Abby because...
Little Abby is physically more similar to Toddler Abby than she is to anyone else, and this similarity obtains because Little Abby is the causal successor of Toddler Abby