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W1 - B1 - CHAP 1 WHAT AM I? Nigel Warbuton Nigel Warbuton - Coggle…
W1 - B1 - CHAP 1
WHAT AM I?
Nigel Warbuton
1.2. THE SHIP OF THESEUS MYTH
EXAMPLES
PLUTARCH'S EXAMPLE p.11
SHIP'S PLANKS
REPLACED PROGRESSIVELY
UNTIL NO MORE ORIGINAL PLANKS
IS IT
THE SAME
SHIP THAN ORIGINALLY?
WHAT IS THE SAME / WHAT IS DIFFERENT?
JULIAN BAGGINI
ANSWER, audio"thought
experiment"
DEPENDS ON THE AIM
(legal? forensic?...)
NUMERICALLY
IDENTICAL
BUT
QUALITATIVELY
DIFFERENT
= THE PHRASE "THE SAME" ...
MEANS DIFF THINGS IN DIFF CONTEXTS
THOMAS HOBBES'S
EXAMPLE p.14
VARIANT = SB ASSEMBLES THE OLD
PIECES UNTIL IT LOOKS LIKE ORIGINAL
WHICH ONE THE TRUE ONE?
x2 TYPES OF
IDENTITIES p.12-13
NUMERICAL
THE SAME THING
QUALITATIVE
THE SAME TYPE
STRICKLY IDENTICAL
=WHATS TRUE OF ONE IS
TRUE OF THE OTHER
(employed in maths/geometry)
BUT WE DONT EMPLOY THIS
STRICT SENSE FOR LIVING BEINGS
EXAMPLES
TWINS
QUALITATIVELY IDENTICAL
BUT QUANTITATIVELY DIFF
MORNING /
EVENING STAR
NUMERICALLY IDENTICAL
=VENUS
THOUGHT
EXPERIMENTS p.14
and "thoughts exp" audio
DEF : HYPOTHETICAL SITUAT°
W CAREFULLY CONTROLLED VARIABLES
-WHAT WOULD Y SAY OR DO?
EXAMPLES
THE TROLLEY
THE TROLLEY ON THE BRIDGE
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
vs STANDARD EXPERIMENTS
BOTH TRY TO SEPARATE / MANIPULATE
ALL OTHER FACTORS / VARIABLES
T EXPERIMENTS USEFUL FOR
THINGS THAT CAN'T BE ETHICALLY
TESTED
AIM AT HIGHLIGHTING 'INTUITIVE'
REACTIONS? THOUGHTS OR EMOTIONS
1.1. INTRODUCTION
what is the self?
body only? soul? mind? p.
