Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Hippolytus, Roderick Chisholm and L. Jonathan Cohen
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 3. Self as Non-physical
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I am picked out uniquely by my individual essence, which is 'being identical with myself' [Chisholm]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
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Sartre says the ego is 'opaque'; I prefer to say that it is 'transparent' [Chisholm]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
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People use 'I' to refer to themselves, with the meaning of their own individual essence [Chisholm]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 1. Self as Indeterminate
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Bad theories of the self see it as abstract, or as a bundle, or as a process [Chisholm]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm]
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If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm]
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Determinism claims that every event has a sufficient causal pre-condition [Chisholm]
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