PHIL 1550 Chapter 2: ch 2 - personal identity, rational anticipation, & self-concern
10 Feb 2017
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Self-concern: sort of special concern that is grounded in personal identity. Body criterion & brain-based memory criterion (bbmc) could not account for intuition. The psychological criterion: x at t1 is the same person as y at t2 iff y is uniquely psychologically continuous w/ x. Appeals to psychological continuity most of us believe that someone"s identity could be preserved through a bout of amnesia. Y: resemblance relations x & y have very similar characters. Psychological connectedness: when the relation holds directly b/w the two person-stages as when y directly remembers an experience of x (* different degrees of psychological connectedness) Need account of numerical identity to appeal to overlapping chains of direct psychological connectedness. One connection does not identity make what counts is strong connectedness: whatever amount of connections we would typically agree is sufficient in its contribution to identity. Psychological continuity: relation when y is strongly connected to an intermediate stage who herself is strongly connected to x.
