Philosophy quiz #5 answers from quiz

In "The Problem of Personal Identity," John Perry presents an example that involves you, as the President, and Peter Parker, as a brain surgeon

False

As covered in class, one advantage of John Locke's view of personal identity is that it allows for the possibility of immortality

True

Perry claims that the "body-transplant" that 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 or incoherent

True

At one point in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke claims that personal identity consists in "the sameness of a rational being.

True

In "A Case of Identity, " by Brian Smart, the judges agreed that objects could be dismantled and retaining identity.

True

David Hume refers to the contents of our consciousness as "perceptions.

True

According to Hume, the self or person is one impression.

False

As Cahn mentioned in his intr�duction to An Essay Concerning human Understanding (and as we covered in class), according to the standard interpretation, Locke's criterion for personal identity is memory.

True

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...

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

According to David Hume, the identity we ascribe to the mind of man is....

only a fictitious one.

Hume claims that memory

discovers personal identity

According to John Locke's view

one's body can change without one's personal identity being affected.

In Brian Smart's "A Case of Identity," Morion's lawyer used the example of a wat argue that...

spatio-temporal continuity of form was neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition of identity

According to Hume, we have a tendency to confound (or confuse) the idea of identity with the idea of...

Diversity

In "A Case of Identity," 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...

Ship Y

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 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.