he puzzle of persisting personal identity refers to the concept of how humans change over time‚ yet remain the same person. In essence‚ when something changes it becomes different‚ meaning it can no longer be the same. This puzzle is often represented by the story of Theseus Ship‚ in which a hero’s ship is preserved throughout many years by replacing dilapidated parts until finally not a single original part remains‚ however a young engineer takes it upon himself to collect the parts of the old ship
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Unit 2 Individual Project‚ Reflection Paper Classroom UNIV 103-1303-27 Joseph Strayer What were the most compelling topics learned in intellipath so far? Asking for h Help. I got a good deal of information out of this subject since it is hard for me to even ask for help. Setting up support groups lets you know that you are not alone. There are other people out there that need help also.Even if you think that you can’t help someone‚you may‚in one way or another even without realizing it.
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In Brains and Behaviors‚ Hilary Putnam argues against logical behaviorism by stating that that the word ‘pain’ is vague and that it is more of a reaction than a behavior. Putnam argues that there must be a general understanding of the concept of pain. In this paper‚ I will affirm the arguments presented by Putnam since there is no true definition of pain. To support this argument‚ I will first provide more details that help support Putnam’s idea that pain is not a term‚ but instead it is reaction
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The subjects of progress and growth are often confused to be the same thing‚ but if anyone would know the difference between them‚ it’d be someone with more than enough experience with both of them such as G.K Chesterton. Chesterton was raised in London where he was well-educated and had the opportunity of pursuing his passions in art and writing. An advocate for the common man‚ he wrote hundreds of woks and contributed them to magazines and newspapers. Chesterton was met with many opportunities
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In section 2 of Skepticism and Content Externalism Hilary Putnam argues that she can establish she is not a BIV on the basis of semantic considerations alone. Putnam uses a martian on mars in comparison to a brain in a vat to prove her argument. Putnam states that if the Martian forms a mental image of a tree in reference to an illustration of a tree it is actually not a representation of a tree. This goes for the BIV as well; The martian and the BIV do not have casual interaction with trees that
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The view of interest here holds to the objection that personal identity is anything but ubiquitous‚ but rather the set of characteristics in question form a personality‚ which a person merely possesses as a holding‚ a constitutive of personal consciousness. On this view‚ a person can change their personality without having their identity annihilated in the strict sense implied by Hume‚ because one’s personality as well as the personality traits is constitutive of personal identity. Based on how this
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Can machines think? Turing didn’t describe the human vs. machine game right away‚ to make a point. He didn’t just flip a coin to see what he was going to write about. His point is simple. If you can distinguish between a man and a machine‚ in the game‚ you could come to the conclusion that the machine doesn’t think‚ right? WRONG! He introduced the idea of the man vs. woman game to prove that making such a conclusion is not in fact a conclusion‚ but an assumption. If it was a fact that‚ if you
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The epistemic physicalist thesis ‘Mary’s Room’ is a theory based on knowledge that argues against physicalism that was developed by Frank Jackson. Physicalism is the view that the universe‚ including all that is mental‚ is entirely physical. The main goal of Mary’s Room theory is to try to establish that there are non-physical properties and attainable knowledge that can be discovered only though conscious experience. In this thought experiment‚ Mary is described as a very intelligent scientist who
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In the article‚ “Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience” Thagard makes the claim that astrology is a pseudoscience by constructing a demarcation criterion of his own that combats those of previous philosophers and applying it to the theory of astrology and other similar disciplines. In this essay‚ I will give new reason to accept Thagard’s premise that astrology is dramatically unprogressive which is what he believes to be one the most unscientific aspects of astrology. I will do this by introducing another
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Metaphilosophy relies on the idea that it might be productive to distinguish some general pronouncements about philosophy from philosophy itself. Contrasting with many other cultural practices‚ for philosophy the distinction is rather questionable‚ but a similar case is presented by language: when speaking in English about the English language one might assume a split between English-as-object and English-as-metalanguage. Philosophers using the term metaphilosophy being still a minority‚ it might
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