Philo 1100 Quiz #5 Answers

in smart's, " A Case of Personal Identity," Bombos's lawyer argues in favor of the view that... a) something, such as a human body, can undergo a change of identity in all its parts over time while still retaining its identity throughout the changes b) since the concept of identity is so unclear, we cannot determine whether a physical object retains identity through out time c) only nonphysical objects retain identity through time d) identity does not exist but, rather, is a figment of one's imagination

a

As we covered in class, one advantage of John Locke's view of personal identity is that it... a) does not allow for the possibility of immortality b) allows for the possibility of immortality c) requires a belief in God d) requires a disbelief in God

b

in "The Problem of Personal Identity," John Perry claims that if we can have the same person on two different occasions when we don't have the same live human body, then... a) personal identity is a illusion b) it seems that a person cannot be identified with his body, and personal identity cannot be identified with bodily identity c)bodily identity is an illusion d) it seems that a person can be identified with a body, so persons and bodies are identical

b

in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke presents an example involving a prince and a cobbler. One of the points that Locke seeks to make with this example is if the souls of the prince entered the body of the cobbler, then we would... a) have the total annihilation of two persons b) have the total annihilation of the soul of the cobbler c) have a different person that the prince in a different man's body d) still have the same person as the prince yet in a different mans' body

d

t or f: According to Locke, whenever one's hand is cut off, one's personal identity changes

false

t or f: in "The Problem of Personal Identity," John Perry offers only one description of the case involving the senator and Peter Pressher since, as Perry puts it, "there is only one obviously right description in this case."

false

t or f: Perry claims that the body-transplant he describes in "The Problem of Personal Identity" is possible in the sense that it's conceivable and the story he told is not self-contradictory of incoherent

true

t or f: at one point in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke claims that personal identity consists in "the sameness of a rational being"

true

in "A Case of Identity," Brian Smart tells a story involving Ship X, Ship Y, and Ship Z. At the end of the story, the judges decide that Ship X was identical with... a) Ship Y b) Ship Z c) both ship y and z d) no other ship

a

in Smart's "A Case of Identity," Morion's lawyer claimed which of the following is a necessary and sufficient condition of identity (in the case of the ships)? a) the identity of the parts of ship c with the parts of ship z b) the identity of the purpose of ship x with the purpose of ship z c) both a and b d) neither a nor b

a

As Cahn meitoned in his introduction to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, according to the standard interpretation of Locke's theory, Locke's criterion for personal identity is... a) the sameness of an immaterial substance b) the sameness of parts c) memory d) the sameness of form

c

according to Locke's view, if Jenkins climbes Mt. Everest when he is 21-years old and, the following day, forever loses any memory of climbing Mt. Everest, then when Jenkins is 40-years old he is... a) still the same person who climbed mt everest b) still the same person and the same man who climbed mt everest c) still the same man who climbed mt everest d) still the same mountain who climbed mt everest

c

in smart's "A Case of Identity," Morion;s lawyer used the example of a watch to argue that... a) spatio-temperal continuity of form was both a necessary and sufficient condition of identity b) spatio-temperal continuity of form is irrelevant to identity c) spatio-temporal continuity of form was neither a nec nor a suf condition of identity d) even a broken watch is correct twice a day

c

t or f: in "A Case of Identity," by Brian Smart, the judges agreed that objects could be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere while still retaining their identity

true

t or f: in "The Problem of Personal Identity, Perry offers an example in which you, the senator, wake up in what seems to be the body of Peter Pressher

true