Intro to Philosophy-Quiz 5

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In Essays on the Intellectual powers of man, Thomas Reid claims that which of the following is/are among the "strange consequences" of Locke's account of personal identity?

-One intelligent being may be two or twenty different persons -Two or twenty intelligent begins may be the same person

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 of this case" True/False

False

Reid claims that her is able to give a clear, concise, logical definition of identity. True/False

False

In "A case if Identity," Brain Smart tells a story involving ship X, ship Y, and ship Z. At the end if the story, the judges decide that Ship X was identical with...

Ship Y

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John 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 soul of the prince entered the body of the cobbler, then we would...

Still have the same person as the prince yet in a different man's body

In Smart's "A case of Identity," Morion's lawyer claimed which of the following was a necessary and sufficient condition of identity (in the case of the ships)?

The identity of the parts of ship X with the parts of ship Z

As we covered in class, one advantage of Locke's view of personal identity is that it allows for the possibility of immortality. True/False

True

At one point in an Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke claims that personal identity consists in the "sameness of a rational being" True/false

True

In a "Case of Identity," by Brain Smart, the judges agreed that objects could be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere while still retaining their identity. True/False

True

According to Locke, whenever one's hand is cut off, one's personal identity changes. True/False

False

According to Reid's view, persons are temporary, divisible, material substances. True/False

False

According to Thomas Reid, memory cannot provide evidence of personal identity. True/False

False

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 Sam elite human body then...

It seems that a person cannot be identified with his body, and personal identity cannot be identified with bodily identity

A Cahn mentioned in his introduction of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (and as we covered in class), according to the standard interpretation of Locke's theory, Locke's criterion fo personal identity is...

Memory

In Smart's "A Case of Identity," Bombos's lawyer argues in favor of the view that...

Something, such as a human body, can undergo a change of identity in all of its parts over time while still retaining its identity throughout the changes.

According to Locke's view, if Ezekiel climbs Mt. Everest when he is 21 years old and, the following day, forever loses any memory of climbing Mt. Everest, then Ezekiel is 40 years old he is...

Still the same man who climbed Mt. Everest


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