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Personal Identity

Personal Identity. Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph. Introduction. What is “identity?” What is “personal identity?”. The Puzzle. Personal identity Bodies Minds Sociality Immortality. Historical. Plato Aristotle Hippocrates- Judeo-Christian

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Personal Identity

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  1. Personal Identity Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph

  2. Introduction • What is “identity?” • What is “personal identity?”

  3. The Puzzle • Personal identity • Bodies • Minds • Sociality • Immortality

  4. Historical • Plato • Aristotle • Hippocrates- • Judeo-Christian • Descartes

  5. Personal Identity Theory • Empiricist • Idealist • Bundle Theory: “I am a bundle of ideas.” • Memory, Dreams, Hallucinations • Idealism: • Subjectivism • Transcenentalism • Materialist • Bundle Theory: “I am a bundle of bodily functions.”

  6. Personal Immortality? • Survival of what? • Individual • Body • Individual body • Soul • Individual soul • Ideas • Individual ideas (memories) • Collectives • Civilizations • Institutions

  7. Arguments for and Against Immortality • Bodily Immortality • For: Genetic Immortality • Against: Thermodynamics • Mental (spiritual) Immortality • For: • Against? • Is it rational to fear death?

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