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.