Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Anon (Bhag) and A.J. Ayer
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 1. Self and Consciousness
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Consciousness must involve a subject, and only bodies identify subjects [Ayer]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations
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If the self is meaningful, it must be constructed from sense-experiences [Ayer]
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Is something an 'experience' because it relates to other experiences, or because it relates to a subject? [Ayer]
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Qualia must be united by a subject, because they lead to concepts and judgements [Ayer]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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Bodily identity and memory work together to establish personal identity [Ayer]
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Two experiences belong to one self if their contents belong with one body [Ayer]
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Empiricists can define personal identity as bodily identity, which consists of sense-contents [Ayer]
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People own conscious states because they are causally related to the identifying body [Ayer]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Self-consciousness is not basic, because experiences are not instrinsically marked with ownership [Ayer]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
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We identify experiences by their owners, so we can't define owners by their experiences [Ayer]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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Memory is the best proposal as what unites bundles of experiences [Ayer]
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Not all exerience can be remembered, as this would produce an infinite regress [Ayer]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity
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Temporal gaps in the consciousness of a spirit could not be bridged by memories [Ayer]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 6. Body sustains Self
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Personal identity can't just be relations of experiences, because the body is needed to identify them [Ayer]
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