Philosophy fillin

A person is something that can consider itself as itself

Lockean self consciousness account

What is a person

metaphysical personhood

What is morally considered a person (pets)

moral personhood

what is legally considered a person (corporations)

legal personhood

Something required to fill a condition

necessary conditions

something that can fulfill a condition

sufficient conditions

Humans are people

species account of personhood

Humans use ourselves as the reference for what a person is, which may lead to odd requirements

human-centric bias

What gives you the same identity over time

Reidentification question

Same qualities

Qualitative identity

Same start, sameness of thing

Numerical identity

What is indisputably reality

Metaphysics

how we identify what is reality/ what we think is reallity. How we know what we know

Epistemology

Identity is based on a persons ability to think of themselves as themselves over time, aka memory

Lockean memory theory

Little kid = brave officer

brave officer = old man

old man does not remember little kid phase

Reid’s brave officer and the transitivity problem

The rope of memory rather than the memories themselves

Continuity of memory

umiak is an umiak

Circularity problem

experiments used to find our intuitions

Thought experiments

same mind to many bodies

Problem of reduplication

we swap bodies

Body swap

we swap minds

Mind swap

descriptions that try not to assume the outcome

Neutral descriptions

direct connections between psychologies

Psychological connectedness 

the rope of psychology

Psychological continuity

memories that

1. are remembered by someone

2. happened to someone

3. are casually related to that persons memory in the right way

Quasi-memory

Identity is based off having the same body over time

Bodily theory of identity

identity is based off having the same life over time

Animalism

1. you were once a fetus

2. fetus doesn’t have psychology

3. continuity of psychology makes no sense

The fetus argument

The relationship between a person and their traits over time

The Characterization Question

social identity based on race, gender, ethnicity, class

Ethical identity