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'fragments/reports', 'Intro to the Philosophy of Time' and 'The Concept of a Person'
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 1. Self and Consciousness
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Consciousness must involve a subject, and only bodies identify subjects [Ayer]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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People own conscious states because they are causally related to the identifying body [Ayer]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
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We identify experiences by their owners, so we can't define owners by their experiences [Ayer]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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Memory is the best proposal as what unites bundles of experiences [Ayer]
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Not all exerience can be remembered, as this would produce an infinite regress [Ayer]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 6. Body sustains Self
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Personal identity can't just be relations of experiences, because the body is needed to identify them [Ayer]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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A swerve in the atoms would be unnatural, like scales settling differently for no reason [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus]
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The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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