Exam 5: René Descartes Mind and Body

Explain Locke's meaning when he says, "it must be allowed, that, if the same consciousness can be transferred from one thinking substance to another, it will be possible that two thinking substances may make but one person."

James says, "As material we say that the experience represents; as formal it is represented. What represents and what is represented is here numerically the same; but we must remember that no dualism of being represented and representing resides in the experience per se."

Explain the difference between "endure" and "perdure" as they refer to a "self." Which of these ideas, if any, do you most agree with? Explain your answer.

Explain Shapiro's suggestion that "we can read Elisabeth as here working towards an intermediary position, one between the substance dualism she originally identified with Descartes's own and the materialism which she then seemed to take to be the only alternative."