The Brave Officer Rides Again
| Autor: | Andreas L. Mogensen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Logic media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Retrograde amnesia 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion medicine.disease 050105 experimental psychology Transplantation Officer Philosophy Argument 060302 philosophy Personal identity medicine Ontology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Continuance Sociology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Erkenntnis. 83:315-329 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8420 0165-0106 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10670-017-9891-5 |
| Popis: | According to the Psychological Account of personal identity, personal identity across time is maintained by some form of psychological overlap or continuance. I show that the Psychological Account has trouble accommodating cases of transient retrograde amnesia. In such cases, the transitivity of psychological continuity may break down. I consider various means of responding to this problem, arguing that the best available response will undercut our ability to rely on intuitions about brain transplantation to support the Psychological Account. When the Psychological Account is re-interpreted in such a way as to overcome the problems posed by cases of transient retrograde amnesia, it turns out that standard brain transplantation cases involve details which are strictly irrelevant according to the theory. On the other hand, these features seem to drive our intuitions about survival in these cases. In this way, my argument undermines one of the key motivations for adopting the Psychological Account. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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