PHL471: Philosophy of Mind
Professor: Craig DeLancey
Office: CC217
Email: delancey@oswego.edu
Current Assignments
I do not accept homeworks by email!
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.