Question 1

According to Hume, the chief source of our idea of personal identity is

Accepted Answer

A)  The soul. 
B)  The body. 
C)  Memory of successive perceptions. 
D)  Both a and b

Question 2

Locke claims that if one forgets all of the past experiences that one had, then one is no longer the same person.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

According to Hume, our idea of the self arises from a customary transition between ideas in the imagination.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

According to Perry, the two descriptions of the brain transplant story cannot both be true.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What is the mention of the drunk man and the sober man supposed to show? Do you agree with Locke here?
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume

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The answer of What is the mention of the drunk...

Question 6

What is your view about personal identity? Are we identical with our bodies? Our personality traits, memories, etc.? Some combination of the two?

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The answer of What is your view about personal identity?...

Question 7

Do you find one of the offered interpretations of the story more plausible? Which one, and why?

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The answer of Do you find one of the offered...

Question 8

Why does Hume think that disputes about personal identity are merely verbal?

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The answer of Why does Hume think that disputes about...

Question 9

Bombos's lawyer argued that identity is established when

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A)  The overall form of the object is retained. 
B)  The object occupies a continuous space-time path 
C)  The identity of all the parts of the object are retained. 
D)  Both a and b

Question 10

What is the role of memory with respect to our sense of self, according to Hume? What does he say about the fact that we forget things about the past? How does this discussion relate to Locke's (previous reading)?
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Thomas Reid

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The answer of What is the role of memory with...

Question 11

Locke claims that personal identity extends as far as one's consciousness.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

According to Parfit, what do the single and double cases show about personal identity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Personal identity depends on the brain, not on the body. 
B)  Personal identity is an incoherent concept that cannot be clearly defined. 
C)  What matters is the relationship one has to future people, not personal identity. 
D)  What matters is our thoughts and experiences, not personal identity.

Question 13

How does Parfit's double case show that identity is not what matters? Are you convinced?

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The answer of How does Parfit's double case show that...

Question 14

Reid claims that the memory of a past action is how someone knows he was the person who performed it.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

According to Reid, the notion of identity is too complex to be logically defined.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Reid claims that

Accepted Answer

A)  Our successive perceptions constitute ourselves. 
B)  We do not have a strong conviction about personal identity. 
C)  We cannot have good evidence about anything in the past other than what we remember. 
D)  To remember that one did something is to be convinced that one existed at that past time.

Question 17

If your head was transplanted onto someone else's body, would you still be you? Would it matter if it was a person of a different age or gender? If your brain was transplanted into a different body, would that be a different situation? Why or why not?

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Question 18

In Parfit's first example, he imagines his head being transplanted onto his twin's body. The main question this example is intended to provoke is

Accepted Answer

A)  Would this operation be possible? 
B)  Would this operation be ethical? 
C)  Would Parfit survive this operation as the same individual? 
D)  Could Parfit survive with only half of his brain intact?

Question 19

In the story Smart describes, Morion ordered a new ship to be built for him.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The court affirmed that a ship might be dismantled and rebuilt.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Identity

According to Hume, the chief source of our idea of personal identity is

Locke claims that if one forgets all of the past experiences that one had, then one is no longer the same person.

According to Hume, our idea of the self arises from a customary transition between ideas in the imagination.

According to Perry, the two descriptions of the brain transplant story cannot both be true.

What is the mention of the drunk man and the sober man supposed to show? Do you agree with Locke here? A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume

What is your view about personal identity? Are we identical with our bodies? Our personality traits, memories, etc.? Some combination of the two?

Do you find one of the offered interpretations of the story more plausible? Which one, and why?

Why does Hume think that disputes about personal identity are merely verbal?

Bombos's lawyer argued that identity is established when

What is the role of memory with respect to our sense of self, according to Hume? What does he say about the fact that we forget things about the past? How does this discussion relate to Locke's (previous reading)? Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man Thomas Reid

Locke claims that personal identity extends as far as one's consciousness.

According to Parfit, what do the single and double cases show about personal identity?

How does Parfit's double case show that identity is not what matters? Are you convinced?

Reid claims that the memory of a past action is how someone knows he was the person who performed it.

According to Reid, the notion of identity is too complex to be logically defined.

Reid claims that

If your head was transplanted onto someone else's body, would you still be you? Would it matter if it was a person of a different age or gender? If your brain was transplanted into a different body, would that be a different situation? Why or why not?

In Parfit's first example, he imagines his head being transplanted onto his twin's body. The main question this example is intended to provoke is

In the story Smart describes, Morion ordered a new ship to be built for him.

The court affirmed that a ship might be dismantled and rebuilt.