PHL471: Philosophy of Mind
Professor: Craig DeLancey
Office: CC217
Email: delancey@oswego.edu




Current Assignments
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Personal and Self Identity

23, 30 November
Please read the section by Locke in Perry's Personal Identity.



Tentative assignments
read Quinton selection, pages 53-72 in John Perry's Personal Identity. Focus on sections 2 and 3 (pages 58-67). While reading, ask yourself:
  • Where does Quiton's view differ from Locke's?
  • Where is Quiton's view similar to Locke's?
  • Which one of those guys is B and which one is C, anyways?
read Butler selection, pages 99-105 in John Perry's Personal Identity.

read Hume selection, pages 159-176 in John Perry's Personal Identity. Optional: Passionate Engines chapter 8.

read Nagel's paper, "Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness," which is collected in John Perry's Personal Identity.