Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, St Peter and Daniel C. Dennett
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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
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I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
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People accept blurred boundaries in many things, but insist self is All or Nothing [Dennett]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness
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Being a person must involve having second-order beliefs and desires (about beliefs and desires) [Dennett]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / c. Self as brain controller
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The psychological self is an abstraction, not a thing in the brain [Dennett]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
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Selves are not soul-pearls, but artefacts of social processes [Dennett]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self
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We tell stories about ourselves, to protect, control and define who we are [Dennett]
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We spin narratives about ourselves, and the audience posits a centre of gravity for them [Dennett]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
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The brain is controlled by shifting coalitions, guided by good purposeful habits [Dennett]
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The work done by the 'homunculus in the theatre' must be spread amongst non-conscious agencies [Dennett]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG]
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Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
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Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett]
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Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett]
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