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Ideas for 'The Problem of the Soul', 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind' and 'Events'

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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

6665	Persons are selves - subjects of experience, with reflexive self-knowledge [Lowe]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / b. Self as brain

6670	If my brain could survive on its own, I cannot be identical with my whole body [Lowe]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

6671	It seems impossible to get generally applicable mental concepts from self-observation [Lowe]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

5351	We only have a sense of our self as continuous, not as exactly the same [Flanagan]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'

6666	All human languages have an equivalent of the word 'I' [Lowe]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self

5353	The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography [Flanagan]

5354	We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living [Flanagan]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

5349	For Buddhists a fixed self is a morally dangerous illusion [Flanagan]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

5338	Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling [Flanagan]

5344	Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living [Flanagan]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

5332	People believe they have free will that circumvents natural law, but only an incorporeal mind could do this [Flanagan]

5345	We only think of ourselves as having free will because we first thought of God that way [Flanagan]